Another Kind of Online Poker: California Radio Poker
The iPod and resultant podcasts may have been the biggest leap forward in communication since movable type and then the Internet itself. Some fairly high quality formats are getting on the virtual air through podcasting on the Internet, presenting themselves to an audience that would never otherwise have had the chance to hear them, without their being part of the limited air space available on radio. A new poker related podcast has joined the crowd; the California Poker Radio show, being broadcast on the Internet every Saturday for an hour out of a San Diego studio…
Related Poker News:
- California Poker Radio: Where the Nuts Tune In
- ‘Hold ‘Em Radio’ Brings Poker To Internet Listeners
- Bluff Poker Radio Expands Broadcast
- Ultimate Bet Star to Host Online Poker Radio Show
- Chip Chat Poker Blog Debuts
- Radio Station Challenges Listeners in Poker
- The First Online Radio Show for Poker Players Gets High Rolling With New Podcasts
- Bluff Poker Radio To Air 2006 World Series of Poker Broadcasts Live On Sirius Satellite Radio
- Proposed California Bill to Determine Online Poker Legality
- Online Poker Radio All Day Every Day
- 2006 World Series of Poker Top Moments from Bluff Poker Radio: Inaugural $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event an Instant Radio
- Bluff Poker Radio to Air 2006 WSOP
Poker slang:
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
RSS feed
