Sydney student wins $2m poker title
A 23-YEAR-old uni student from Sydney has become a multi-millionaire literally overnight after a shock win at one of the world’s biggest poker tournaments.
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Poker jargon:
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
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