£1.7bn fortune propels online poker tycoon on to Asian rich list
At the age of 25, he was just another computer engineer pursuing the fortunes of the dotcom bubble. Less than a decade later, the gambling software he created for online casino games has made Anurag Dikshit one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
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Useful poker terms:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- 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.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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