PartyGaming Takes Over Empire Online For $250 Million
First they weakened them then they bought them out in a classic hostile takeover, online poker style. Party Gaming, the operators of Party Poker, have bought out the assets of their one-time biggest partner Empire Online, the operators of the poker skin Empire Poker. The deal is worth $250 million, and is good news for PartyGaming…
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Poker argot:
- BACK DOOR - Applies to a hand that was made in the last card or two, specifically not a hand the player was originally planning on having. Most often applied to straights and flushes.
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
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