Online Poker Parent Suspends Shares
64-year-old Peter Dicks was recently arrested in the USA on anti-gaming charges, sparking a panicked rush of action for Sportingbet Plc, for whom Dicks has served as non-executive Chairman. Dicks’ arrest prompted his company to suspend its shares immediately on the London Stock Market. Sportingbet owns one of the larger international online poker rooms, Paradise Poker, along with Sportsbook.com, an online sportsbetting giant that gets a lot of action from the US, to the tune of billions of dollars…
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Useful poker terms:
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- 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.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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