Online Poker Qualifiers Still Running

While much of the poker world seems to be in a state of entrenchment thanks to recent changes in the United States’ legislation on the industry, evidence that it is business as usual in some areas is easy to find. The European Poker Tour, a series of big buy in events that take place in Barcelona, Vienna, London, Dublin and more cities across Europe, has still been getting their fair share of online qualifiers, such as Bedford resident James Reid. Reid won his spot into the EPT via an online satellite played on PokerStars.com, and thus gets to sidestep the 5,000 Euro entry fee, a practice that is largely responsible for the huge playing fields in today’s big poker events…

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Useful poker terms:

LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
SMALL BLIND - In games with two blinds the first blind is the SMALL BLIND because it is usually one-half (or less) the second or large blind.
HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).

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