Online Poker Room to the Rescue
For poker players the ultimate dream is playing at the World Series of Poker, and these days the dream happens more often than ever before, thanks in part to the online qualifiers and satellites. The online poker rooms offer seats to the WSOP to those who win their qualifying tournaments, so when one site reneged on the deal it caused an uproar. The poker site CnR emailed the winners of a number of WSOP seats to tell them they couldn’t afford to pay off…
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Poker dictionary:
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- PAY STATION - A player who rarely folds, thus who frequently calls better hands and loses. Almost as much fun as a LIVE ONE.
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