PokerNews WSOP Awards Part II: Surprises, Suckouts, Comebacks, and Player of the Year
Last week, we brought you the PokerNews Live Updating Team’s take on the biggest break-out performances and greatest disappointments of the 2010 World Series of Poker. (In case you missed it, we DVRed the first half for you here.) We’re back after…
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Poker slang:
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- HOUSE RULE - Rules and interpretations (e.g., use of wild cards, or rules on having to show beaten hands) that are specific to an establishment or even tables within the establishment.
- WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
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