The Sunday Briefing: Sam “siola” Iola Takes Home Largest of Eight Six-Figure Scores

Sure to be a memorable month, November kicked off with an online poker bang. A few hours after the New York Yankees locked up Game 4 of the World Series, Sam “siola” Iola locked up the biggest payday of the Sunday Majors, collecting…

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Poker lexicon:

• SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
• FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
• TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
• SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
• FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
• GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.