Bad Beat For The World Poker Tour
The owner of the World Poker Tour TV show, WPT Enterprises, Inc., this week announced third quarter losses of more than three times compared to the same quarter one year ago.
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- China to Join World Poker Tour
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Poker lexicon:
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- REBUY - [1] To purchase additional chips after an initial buy-in, usually after losing most or all of the previous buy-in. This term is most often used in certain tournaments where if one loses all one's chips, or falls below a certain minimum chip level, for an additional sum of money one can purchase a fixed amount of additional tournament chips. Usually there is a time limit (The "REBUY PERIOD") as to how long rebuys are allowed. [2] The additional chips "rebought" in tournament play.
- 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.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
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