Online Poker Servers Targeted
In an interesting case for online poker the First Hall Civil Court in Malta recently made a judgment in favor of Poker Trillion dot com which would allow the servers of Boss Media Malta Limited and Boss Media AB to be seized and shut down. As of September 18 these companies were to stop their commercial activity, all as a result of a breach-of-contract accusation by Poker Trillion against Boss Media and their affiliated companies. This was done in connection with a €45 million lawsuit…
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Poker jargon:
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- 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.

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