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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Poker terminology:
- BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
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