Online Poker Room Pays Off Players
Recently it came to light that a popular online poker room was involved in a cheating scandal that has cast a pallor over the entire industry. Absolute Poker hosted a big tournament where the winner was displaying signs of having insider information, and when one of the players in the tournament requested a typical hand history, he instead got a document filled with private information on every player in the game. Now facing more than just allegations of cheating the poker room is being taken to task for releasing private information…
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Useful poker information:
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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