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The Weekly Edition, an OCR Live! production in which Kate brings you the headlines for the past week, including legal developments from Denmark, positive reviews of gambling related ads in the UK, some behind the scenes news from the Fantasy World and a tribute to poker players harmed by poker-related violence.
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Poker dictionary:
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
- SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.

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