LOOKING IN ON: GAMING
Bars across the country have attempted to capitalize on the poker craze by offering free poker tournaments where winners can earn bragging rights, cash prizes and even entries to big casino tournaments.
Related Poker News:
- Inside Gaming: Sands Court Report, Gaming Stock Talk, and Movement in Mobile Gaming
- United Broadcast Communications Announces New TV Show for Gaming Enthusiasts
- Inside Gaming: Florida’s Gaming Boats Sunk; PartyGaming Teams with Danish Danske Spil
- Mangas Gaming, Owner of Betclic, Announces the Acquisition of Everest Gaming, a Leading European Online Poker Platform
- Gaming authority gives landlord Tumas special poker permit
- Action Poker Gaming Licenses Its Online Poker Software to Legendz Gaming
- Inside Gaming: Macau Thriving, Possible Illinois Gaming Expansion, and More
- Inside Gaming: German and Greek Gaming Proposals, Caesars’ Arena Proposal, and More
- Inside Gaming Special Report: Caesars/888 Deal Approval a Milestone for Online Gaming
- Big Brother Has Eye on Online Poker
- Progressive Gaming Receives Gaming Laboratory International
- Action Poker Gaming Inc. Licenses its Online Poker Software to Legendz Gaming
Poker argot:
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
RSS feed
