Foxwoods finds powerful poker partner
MASHANTUCKET — When Foxwoods Resort Casino’s new poker room opens next month, it will have the World Poker Tour name attached.”It makes sense for the two giants in the industry to come together and do something,” said Kathy Raymond, Foxwoods’ director of poker operations.The poker room will be the first at a casino to carry the World Poker Tour name.Foxwoods was the first casino to sign with the World Poker Tour, which airs tournaments on the Travel Channel. Foxwoods holds two of the group’s ma
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Casino poker language:
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- READ - To determine whether an opponent has a good, medium or bad hand by observing his personal behavior. An inexact science.
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
- 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.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.

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