Asia Pacific Poker Tour Cebu, Day 1b: Record-Setting Field in the Philippines
The PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour made history today as the biggest poker tournament held in the Philippines. In all, 319 players entered the two Day 1 flights, creating a juicy prize pool of about $600,000 U.S. Originally, the event was…
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Useful poker terms:
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
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