Play Poker in Vegas with VIP.com
November 29 - Top online gambling destination as well as online poker room, VIP.com is offering its poker players the opportunity to play live Texas Hold’em poker in the ‘Mecca of poker’ itself, Las Vegas baby!
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Poker lingo:
- 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.
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
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