Cheating At Online Poker Discussed In New Book
A new book written by an old gambling cheat, Richard Marcus, discusses the rather salacious topic of cheating at poker, both online and in card rooms. The book entitled "Dirty Poker" makes the rather hysterical claim that if you aren’t cheating at online poker you’re being cheated…
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Useful poker information:
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- 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.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).

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