PartyGaming posts 1H profit, but poker sales slow
PartyGaming PLC, the owner of the PartyPoker.com web site, posted a first-half profit on Friday as the group’s international online roulette, bingo and sports betting businesses boomed, but poker revenue growth slowed.
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Poker argot:
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- BELLY BUSTER - An inside straight draw. Same as GUTSHOT.
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
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