Online and Live Poker Represented by World Poker Congress
Taking place two days in June in Stockholm, Sweden, the World Poker Congress will be the first such event to integrate both live and online elements of the poker industry. The World Poker Congress will focus on land-based, live games during one part of the session and online issues during another. Highlighting strategies, services, and products that will help online poker rooms stay in the forefront is part of the mission of the World Poker Congress, which hopes to help such businesses understand the challenges and opportunities required to be successful in the industry.
According to Paul Dworin, publisher of Global Gaming Business and PokerBIZZ magazines, the World Poker Congress will give vendors and poker room operators a “window into poker’s future.”…
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Useful poker terms:
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- BOARD - The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also BOARD CARDS.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- 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.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- TELL - Any personal mannerisms that reveal the quality of one's hand. E.g., constantly looking at one's hole cards is often a tell of a poor hand. (Some players, knowing this, will at times check their hole cards when they have a great hand and don't need to look.)
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