New Live Games Help With Poker Tells
Online poker has proven to be very profitable and successful for both players and the poker rooms who host them, but one glaring omission in the process has always been poker tells; or rather, the lack of tells. When playing against an online oppnent it is extremely difficult to pick up tells, although learning a vitual players style of play is not only possible, but critical to success. Pokerhost.com, however, hopes to reunite reading tells with poker for the online game.
Along with partner RIAM, pokerhost.com will be offering a service where they will provide players with microphones and webcams, allowing online players to literally see the faces and read the body language of their opponents…
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Poker jargon:
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
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