The Beats that Sting

As I read Peter Costa’s column in the October 17 issue, for a moment I thought that he and Phil Hellmuth may be on to something to (again) change our poker world forever. The subject was bad beats in online poker. He eluded first jokingly to solutions (which all sounded great to me!) and then he teased us while saying it would be unfair to tease the readers and finally he left us with a riddle, “The key to the solution - can only be found - if you believe a solution is needed.”

Bad beats are certainly a part of poker, always have been, always will be. That is why so many bad players play. They often are referred to as dead money because if you wait around long enough, they will, more often than not, give you the money back plus interest. Bad players can play badly and win enough to give them the false security that they can be winning players. That is what is so great about this game. If there were … Continue reading The Beats that Sting

Thu, November 17th, 2005

Useful poker terms:

STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.

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