Travel Channel Packs Up Lawsuit Against WPT, Set to Air Professional Poker Tour
WPT Enterprises and the Travel Channel have released a joint statement declaring an "amicable" end to the lawsuit between them. The companies can now pair up again, bringing television viewers the long-awaited premiere of the Professional Poker Tour (PPT). The PPT, as opposed to the much-watched World Poker Tour (WPT), brings together 200 top poker players by invitation only, to battle it out around the poker table.
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Poker dictionary:
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- 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.
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
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