Harrah’s, PokerTek Announce WSOP-Branded Deal
Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc., has reached a multi-year deal with North Carolina-based PokerTek™, Inc. that will make PokerTek the exclusive provider of automated poker tables at Harrah’s casinos….
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Poker lingo:
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- 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.
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- 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".
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- SHILL - A card room employee who plays with House money, and does not share in any of his (her) winnings or losses. Shills are used to facilitate starting games, and keeping them going. Compare: PROP.

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