PurePlay Poker Tournament Attracts 30,000 Players
PurePlay, the first and largest U.S.-compliant play-for-cash online poker destination, today announced completion of its first-ever tournament to award a free seat to the World Series of Poker*. More than 30,000 players competed for a $10,000 seat at the poker championship, to be held in Las Vegas in July. This enthusiastic response spurred PurePlay to kick off a second qualifying tourney, now …
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Poker jargon:
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- 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".
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
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