Dag Palovic – Poker Player Profile
Slovakian Dag Palovic is a full-time poker player, impresario, and author. The Bratislava resident is the President of the Slovak Poker Sport Federation and one of the main organizers of World Poker Tour (WPT) stops in his hometown of Bratislava.
Palovic, also known as “Lucky D,” started playing poker relatively recently – in 2007 – yet he made it to the final days of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, for which he ponied up his own $10,000 buy in. He ultimately bowed out in 37th place and picked up $206,000.
Palovic has co-authored a book with 1983 WSOP Main Event champ Tom McEvoy; we suspect it is in his native Slovak because we have not been able to find out more about this periodical.
Palovic is a member of MENSA International, which means he is certified as a holder of a very high IQ since MENSA only accepts people who score in the 98th percentile (the top 2%) on standard intelligence tests. To further this point, Palovic speaks an impressive array of six languages: Slovak, Czech, English, French, German, and Russian.
WSOP reporters and bloggers who have been covering the 2010 WSOP Main Event have noted that Palovic likes to organize his chips in stacks of five, making for a broad arrangement in front of him at the table.
Before going deep in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Palovic won the Red Sea Poker Cup in 2010 and the 2010 Evian Poker Open, making nearly €100,000 from both prizes combined. His total poker winnings to date are over $700,000, helped in part by his mammoth bankroll boost in the $10,000 buy-in tournament in Las Vegas.
Even without taking into account his 2010 WSOP Main Event cash, Palovic is the highest earning poker player in Slovakia and possibly in the entire Central Eastern Europe.
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Poker jargon:
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
- TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- 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.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
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