New Face for Online Poker Room
Online poker room Purple Lounge Poker has hired on a new face to be their spokesperson. They are keeping with the habit of appointing a beautiful woman to the post, but this time they picked one who knows how to play poker. Model and pro poker player Michelle Orpe is the new face of Purple Poker, and has proven her skills at the table while playing in the European Poker Tour…
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Useful poker terms:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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