Online poker captures nation
BRITAIN has perfected its poker face this year and helped the sport to explode outside its native USA.
Online poker has captured the public interest in 2005 - three companies successfully floated on the London stock market after poker players spent £1.2bn on internet gaming, and a raft of games and books have hit the shops just in time for Christmas.
The biggest winner was PartyGaming, taking around £500m in revenues and floating for around £4.6bn.
But the company has also had mixed fortunes…
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Poker jargon:
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
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