Professional Poker Tour Offers Something New
If you have seen any poker television at all, odds are good that it was the World Series of Poker and its little brother, the World Poker Tour. These shows follow a similar format: any player with the money can buy in to a tournament and take a shot at the big-time — not to mention playing against the real pros on the poker circuit. Another brainchild from WPT Inc., the parent company of the World Poker Tour, is a poker horse of a different color — the Professional Poker Tour…
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Poker dictionary:
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- REBUY - [1] To purchase additional chips after an initial buy-in, usually after losing most or all of the previous buy-in. This term is most often used in certain tournaments where if one loses all one's chips, or falls below a certain minimum chip level, for an additional sum of money one can purchase a fixed amount of additional tournament chips. Usually there is a time limit (The "REBUY PERIOD") as to how long rebuys are allowed. [2] The additional chips "rebought" in tournament play.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- 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.
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