Online Poker Room Wars
Last month the biggest rumor regarding online poker rooms was that Ladbrokes - the UK online gaming giant - was set to take over 888 Holdings, the parent company of Casino-on-Net and Pacific Poker. A takeover bid was in the works, according to the rumors, and recent indications suggest that those rumors were at least partially true. According to The Daily Mail newspaper the two firms have been discussing possibilities for more than a month…
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Poker terminology:
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- SEAT POSITION - The actual seat a player has, normally numbered sequentially starting with 1 as the first seat to dealer's left. Not to be confused with POSITION in a particular pot. Typically unrelated to play of a hand but often important in peripheral aspects, e.g.: "Seats 1 and 10 are nonsmoking here", "Seat 5 has a good view of the table", "Seat 3 is in a high-traffic area".
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
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