Online Poker Becomes Live Poker
Coming on the heels of the implementation of electronic Texas Holdem Tables in CA casinos, the Progressive Gaming International Corporation (PGIC) made the announcement that they will be taking the concept one step further - by taking it wireless and making it remote. The tables have no dealer but instead a number of flat panel touch screen monitors that record and display the action, while the PGIC concept completely removes the table, giving customers handheld devices that would allow them to roam the casino or even move to the pool or the restaurant and continue to play. PGIC devices would use the World Series of Poker “Peer to Peer” Texas Holdem game, and would be a perfect solution for casinos that don’t have a poker room.
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Poker terminology:
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- EVEN-MONEY - A bet that pays off exactly the amount wagered. E.g., "Double or nothing" is an even-money bet.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
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