Pacific Poker’s owner 888 Holdings reports excellent quarter
888 Holdings, the owner of the world’s largest online casino 888.com (Casino on Net), and the fourth largest online poker room Pacific Poker, reported excellent results for the quarter ending 31 December, 2005. Casino revenues were only up one percent, but poker revenues soared to $36 million, an increase of 22 percent.
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Poker dictionary:
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
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