Online Poker Room Holds $50k Event This Month

Running July 12-14 at online poker room Pacific Poker will be an event that promises to give a few online poker players a taste of what they may be missing at the World Series of Poker going on in Las Vegas this summer. Online tournaments are no new thing, and in fact are run hundreds of times a day by various online poker sites, but events like this with guaranteed prize pools of $50,000 and more offer real opportunity to make some significant cash. While the buy in to such events can be expensive compared to others, players who don’t want to shell out so much cash can play in free qualifiers and work their way into the event….

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Poker terminology:

BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
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.)
SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
RAKE - Money taken from each pot and given to the house in return for hosting the game. Usually a percentage of the pot (5%-10%) up to some maximum amount.
TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.

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