The Online Railbird Report: Dwan Dominates
The seven-figure swings just don’t stop. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies were back at it the past few days and this time, it was “durrrr” getting the best of the Fin. Dwan bested Sahamies en route to making back the $1.5 Million he…
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Poker lexicon:
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
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