888 Holdings Q1 gaming revenue up 42 pct, boosted by soaring poker revenues
LONDON (AFX) - 888 Holdings PLC, the online gaming company, reported a strong start to the current year, boosted by significant growth in revenues from poker.
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Poker talk:
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- FLAT CALL - To call a bet. Emphasizes that the caller did not raise.
- COMMUNITY CARDS - Cards that are available for every player to use in making a hand. Usually dealt face up somewhere in the middle of the table.
- 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.
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