PartyGaming Rebounds After Skins Split
PartyGaming, owner of the internet’s largest online poker room, Party Poker, saw its shares (PRTY.L) jump 10% today after it announced that its strategic split with its partners, or “skins,” had resulted in increased poker growth.
Related Poker Rooms and Poker Industry News:
- PartyGaming buys MultiPoker and IntertopsPoker skins
- Empire Online settlement with PartyGaming close at hand
- Online Poker Landscape Set To Change As PartyGaming Makes A Big Move
- Online Poker Feud Ending
- Poker Room Acquires Skin
- The Party is Over For Poker Skins
- PartyGaming Announces 2005 Financials, CEO’s departure
- PartyGaming Considering Empire Poker Purchase
- PartyGaming Earnings Report: CEO Garber to Step Down
- Go for both best, worst hands in Hi-Lo split poker
- Absolute Poker Slips Into Its New Skin
- First Ever Two Time Split Winner at WSOP
Useful poker terms:
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- 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.
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
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