Poker Pit Bosses Go High Tech
With the continued growth of pokers popularity, it is not only online poker rooms that are getting flooded with players. The casino floors and poker rooms are having their fair share of increased business, as evidenced by the over five thousand entrants into the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker.
Traditionally it was left up to the poker pit bosses to monitor the poker players, both to keep cheating a non-issue and to manage gambler comps…
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Poker lexicon:
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
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