The Nightly Turbo: Timex Quits Poker, Another Poker Player’s TOC Promise, and More

Mike “TIMEX” McDonald has quit poker. Isn’t he too young to retire? Marty Smyth is appealing to your heart strings to get votes for the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and more all in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.

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Poker slang:

• 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.
• ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
• POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
• ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
• LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
• BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.