Online Poker Player Data Up for Grabs
Online poker players produce a lot of records playing games at various poker rooms, and that information is valuable to other poker players looking for an edge over their opponents. Knowing how a particular opponent plays can give insight into how to earn their chips, the ultimate goal in a game of poker. One source, Poker Sharks Radar, claims to have created a database using info on three million online poker players and their game stats and is offering the data for free on their site…
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Poker argot:
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- OVERCALL - To call a bet after one or more players already called.
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
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