Poker Used to Showcase Technology
Coming up in September is the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, a time for web technology experts to showcase their wares and demonstrate their skills - and have a little fun playing poker. Coinciding with the event will be the AJAXWorld Poker Tournament, open to all participants free of charge. Players will need to have their own laptops with wireless modems, however, to compete for daily prizes and the grand prize…
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Poker talk:
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- EDGE - An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- 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.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
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