Playtech and Sportingbet Announce Earnings
Playtech Ltd and Sportingbet PLC both reported their earnings earlier this week. Both companies posted improved financial results in their effort to rebuild after the industry’s devastating loss of the lucrative US market…
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- Playtech Introduces the New and Improved Poker Client
- Sportingbet Sells U.S. Operations for $1
- Playtech Enters London Financial Markets
- Online Poker and Gaming CEO Resigns
- Playtech Posts Record First Quarter Profits
- Another Euro Merger: Playtech Purchases Tribeca
- Playtech Launches ‘Play for Real’ Mode on Italian Poker Network
- Two Online Poker Rooms Stay by Playtech
- Sportingbet exec accuses US of ‘absurd protectionism’
- Playtech is Boosted by Poker Sales
- Sportingbet Continues Upward March
- SportingBet Chairman Resigns
Useful poker information:
- 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.).
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- WORLD SERIES OF POKER - A series of several different poker games with relatively large buy-ins, culminating in a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, the winner of which is crowned the World Poker Champion. Sponsored by Binion's Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
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