Poker vetaran wins H.O.R.S.E
Nguyen wins H.O.R.S.E
How would like to be one of these 2 guys?
Nguyen, a seasoned veteran at poker with 4 gold bracelets, wins $2 million dollars by beating out a New Jersey local 23-year-old Michael DeMichele in H.O.R.S.E., a rotating-game tournament that cost $50,000 to enter.
Although No-Limit Texas Hold-’em is the most popular poker game. It’s the game played in the WSOP main event and on numerous television shows. HORSE is widely known in poker circles as the “Players Championship,” due to the variety of skills required to win.
During a H.O.R.S.E. tournament, which stands for five games of poker played in rotation—Hold ‘em, Omaha, Razz, Stud and Eight or Better—tests the all-around player more than the No Limit Hold ‘em game, which was born in Texas and has become the most popular poker game worldwide.
More specifically Hold’em is when players are dealt two cards and there are five community cards; then you have Omaha High, where players are dealt four cards with three community cards; Razz, is a game where the player receives seven cards and the worst combination of five cards wins; For Seven-Card Stud, in each player receives seven cards and the best five-card combination wins; an then there is Eight or Better, a combination of the last two games, the pot is split between the best five-card combination and the worst, while the worst hand cannot have any card higher than an eight.