Online Poker Milestone: PokerStars Signs Up Five Millionth Player
The firsts for online poker room PokerStars seem to come almost monthly nowadays. Only a few weeks ago, the site announced that their Sunday afternoon No Limit Hold Em tournaments would be guaranteed to pay out $1 million to the field…
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Poker talk:
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
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