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

Poker jargon:

COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
TELL - Any personal mannerisms that reveal the quality of one's hand. E.g., constantly looking at one's hole cards is often a tell of a poor hand. (Some players, knowing this, will at times check their hole cards when they have a great hand and don't need to look.)
STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
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.
LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.

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