Online Poker Room Review For 2005
Online poker rooms enjoyed their most successful year ever in 2005, but it was also a year of scandal, intrigue, and in-fighting worthy of a soap opera. There were winners (Party Poker and PokerRoom) and losers (Empire and PokerShare), enormous IPOs that recalled the Dotcom boom, and most of all, huge opportunities for poker players to win and lose fortunes…
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Casino poker language:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
- MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
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