Article Supposes Casinos Take Advantage of Sleepless Poker Players
A popular online poker news magazine recently published an article stating poker was damaging to a player’s health, and in the article a few interesting observations were made. The first observation talks about how clocks are not used in casinos in order to keep time-conscious poker players at the tables. The second one is about how lack of sleep results in a physical change in how the brain processes information, leaving the player more susceptible to risk…
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Poker glossary:
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- 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.
- 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.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
- MAIN POT - The main pot, as related to one or more side pots, when there are one or more all-in player(s). The main pot is the one in which all active players participate.
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