Online Poker Site Focuses on Social Networking
Most online poker sites are actually about the subject of poker, rather than actually playing the game. While there are hundreds of online poker rooms, there are thousands of sites dedicated to discussing the world’s favorite card game, and a new site focusing on the social aspect of online poker has recently made itself known. In a recent press release social networking site Gaambol.com has let it be known that they offer poker fun for players of all skill levels, with the emphasis on interaction with one another…
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Poker argot:
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- POT LIMIT - A game where the maximum bet is determined by the size of the pot at the time. Note that a player wanting to raise first calls the bet, then totals the pot to determine the maximum amount he can raise.
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- 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".
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".

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