PartyGaming Outplay Empire In The Biggest Poker Game
The biggest poker game of all is taking place on the London Stock Exchange, and there can be little doubt that PartyGaming, the oldest online poker player has taken Empire Online, their former partner and current rival, to school. In fact, PartyGaming have run rings round them, and are now considering a buy-out of Empire - the coup de grace after hacking away at their share value in the past two months…
Related Online Poker and Poker Industry News:
- PartyGaming Likely to Settle Online Poker War with Empire Online for $200 Million
- PartyGaming Swallows Empire Poker for $250 Million
- Empire Online settlement with PartyGaming close at hand
- PartyGaming Takes Over Empire Online For $250 Million
- Poker War Has Begun
- Empire Online Sues PartyGaming for Breach of Contract
- Online Poker Feud Ending
- PartyGaming Approaches Empire Online About a Takeover
- Empire Poker Still Popular
- Empire Poker to Sue PartyGaming
- PartyGaming Buys Empire Poker
- Empire Online settles with PartyGaming
Poker slang:
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
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