Online Poker Room Switches Networks

Online poker room Mansion Poker, established in 2004, recently announced they have switched networks, moving their operation over to the iPoker network. The move will be mostly transparent as far as their poker players are concerned, although it has been timed with a revamped poker loyalty points system. Those players with existing loyalty poker points will have their balance converted to the new system of Mansion Club Points…

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Poker lingo:

HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
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.
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.
STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.

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