Poker Face Claims Real Poker Experience
“Only around 50% of a poker game in the real world is about the cards,” says Jon Sykes, the Managing Director of Play Technologies. Sykes and his company are producing Poker Face, a video game that follows, but does not copy, the spate of poker games being produced today.
Most poker games focus on the tournament play and the cards on the table, but Poker Face claims to deal with the darker, gritty side of poker, the underworld poker rooms, crime bosses and card sharks that can be encountered. Sykes continues; “The rest is about the other players, your ability to guess what they’re up to, the risks of bluffing and the consequences of losing…
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Useful poker information:
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
- OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
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