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A slanted container used to hold the cards yet to be dealt, usually used by casinos and in professional poker tournaments. See main article: shoe (cards). shootout A poker tournament format where the last remaining player of a table goes on to play the remaining players of other tables. Each table plays independently of the others; that is ...
The main live poker tournament in Africa is the All Africa Poker Tournament hosted by the Piggs Peak Casino in Piggs Peak, Swaziland. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is 64 players compete in heads-up matches single elimination style to determine a winner. It is one of the most prestigious heads up poker tournaments and it is the first ...
Frag Infinity Tournament, F.I.T.E.S. LAN [15] is a major event held yearly in south central Pennsylvania. Gaming Scotland, the largest Scottish LAN [16] party held at the Dobbie Hall, Scotland. Lan ETS, the largest LAN party in Canada. Held in Montreal, Quebec. Minho Campus Party, LAN party held annually in the Minho region, Portugal.
In poker, the Independent Chip Model (ICM), also known as the Malmuth–Harville method, [1] is a mathematical model that approximates a player's overall equity in an incomplete tournament. David Harville first developed the model in a 1973 paper on horse racing; [2] in 1987, Mason Malmuth independently rediscovered it for poker. [3]
A satellite tournament in poker is a qualifying event. Winners of these satellites usually win the buy-in fee to a larger, more prestigious tournament like the World Series of Poker Main Event. Although there are some land-based satellite tournaments (usually for very high-stakes tournaments), most of them are online-based.
BARGE, the Big August Rec.Gambling Excursion, is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the summer, usually a weekend in late July or the first weekend of August. It consists of a series of tournaments both of poker and other gambling games, as well as a banquet and a host of informal social and gambling activities organized by attendees.
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