Enter The Pokerdome
The jokes about Beyond Thunderdome are inevitable, but Fox Sports Net is dead serious about their recent announcement. In a joint effort with Mansionpoker.net, FSN will create a brick and mortar coliseum where the modern gladiators known as poker pros will compete in a high-tech environment for the entertainment of the masses. This new, first of its kind structure will be called the Pokerdome.
In the Pokerdome players will sit at a table surrounded by one-way mirrors, allowing a studio audience as well as the cameras to watch them unseen, catching them au natural as it were…
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Poker argot:
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- 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.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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