BetandWin Buys Out Rival Ongame in Deal
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Austrian online gambling site BetandWin said Friday that it is buying Swedish gambling site Ongame.com for at least €473.6 million (US$568.4 million) in a deal that would create one of the world’s largest publicly listed gambling companies. The deal is expected to be completed in the first four months of 2006, pending final approval from BetandWin’s supervisory board, regulatory approvals and other conditions. BetandWin said it was acquiring 100 percent of the shares in O…
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Poker slang:
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
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