World Poker Tour Featured on UK Channel
LOS ANGELES - (PRESS RELEASE) — WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPTE) announced today that it has inked an agreement for its WORLD POKER TOUR(R) television series to be featured programming when the UK’s much-anticipated ITV4 network kicks off on November 1. ITV4 is the latest addition to the powerful ITV family of networks broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The new network is an “entertainment channel providing quality programming to a discerning, up-market audience with a male bias.”This is …
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Poker lingo:
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
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