Online Poker Room Marathon
Online poker room Purple Lounge has announced they are running a race, with the winners cashing in. The race is a $200k; that’s the amount of money expected to be in the prize pool - minimum - of the series coming up on Purple Lounge. The five events, in honor of the looming Summer Olympics in China, are the Marathon, 100 Meters, High Jump, 50KM Walk and Relay, all of which offer thousands in top prizes for Bronze, Silver and Gold finishes…
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Poker jargon:
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- HOLE CARDS - In Stud and Hold'em, the face-down cards dealt to each player.
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