Internet gambling is the latest campus craze
PHILADELPHIA - Ari Paul’s dorm room at the University of Pennsylvania has the trappings of the contemporary collegiate male: acoustic guitar, Hooters calendar, supersize bag of tortilla chips on the floor, and dual flat-screen computer monitors at which he’s playing three simultaneous hands of online poker.The game is Omaha high, close to Texas hold `em. Cards flick across the screens at a speed no casino dealer could match.The stakes are low by Paul’s old standards, a total buy-in of just $500
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Poker terminology:
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
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