Online Poker Ongame Network Poker Classic Launched

When Bet and Win acquired the Ongame Network, the Australian poker company wasted no time in launching the Ongame network Poker Classic. The event is a tournament with a guaranteed prize pool that is a record breaker, weighing in at five million dollars, with at least one fifth of that going to the final first place finisher. Naturally this amount may seem small potatoes compared to the big events such as the final tournaments for the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker (for instance, the WSOP will have a seventy million dollar prize pool in 2006), this event is a record breaker because it is the first tournament that starts online with such a big prize pool guaranteed…

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Poker argot:

AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.
STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).

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