Two Executives Quit Prominent U.K. Online Poker Operator PartyGaming
Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargava, two co-founders of the U.K. online poker website PartyGaming.com, recently decided to quit the gaming company’s board. Bhargava, who is currently serving as the company’s marketing director, will leave ParyGaming at the end of 2006.
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Poker lexicon:
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- WHEEL - A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand. Can also refer to a 5-high straight in high games. Also: BICYCLE.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.

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