Poker Odds Favorite Over Law Career
For Dustin Dirksen, life has been about the law and poker. A law student whose grades took a bad beat to his burgeoning poker career, Dirksen discovered online poker and soon was playing from his laptop in the law school library. Just 26, Dirksen has had wild swings in the realm of poker, but has become successful enough to build a house worth hundreds of thousands and have a nice six figure buffer in his online poker account…
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Poker jargon:
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- FLAT CALL - To call a bet. Emphasizes that the caller did not raise.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
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