2008 Starts Strong for Online Poker Rooms

There are traffic sites that watch online poker rooms traffic and make reports, which in turn are used to gauge the strength of the industry at various times during the year. One such site, PokerSiteScout, reported that on January 7th real money traffic combined of all the online poker rooms they monitor passed the 95,000 mark, which was the previous record set only a few days before. This week is breaking records across the industry, showing a good strong start both for the industry as a whole and for a few specific poker rooms.

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Poker glossary:

MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
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.

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