European Financial Outfit Gambles On Online Poker Room
Advanced Financial Network one of the leading stocks and shares website dealing with European markets, decided to make a bold move recently when they launched their own poker website. The Advanced Financial Network, citing a growing poker related swell among its readers, put together and launched www.advfnpoker.com, which offers up the standard menu selections of including Texas Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, and Heads-Up poker as well. Poker fans can also chat with one another live on the site also.
Advanced Financial Network has a 400,000 registered user base to draw from, and is counting on brand loyalty to draw members to the poker site…
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Poker lexicon:
- 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.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- BUTTON - A distinctive token held by the player sitting in the theoretical dealer's position, when a house dealer is used. The button rotates around the table so that every player has an opportunity to be the last to act. Also, "THE BUTTON" can refer to the player who currently has the button. ("I was the button and called the blind".) Synonyms: BUCK, PUCK.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
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