Cheating Scandals Raise New Questions about Honesty, Security of Internet Gambling
Whenever Todd Witteles signed on to an Internet poker site, the first thing he did was look around for inexperienced players. One day in August 2007, the Las Vegas poker pro thought he had found an easy mark on AbsolutePoker.com.
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Poker argot:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- FLOORMAN - The casino representative in charge of the card room or a section of a card room. Arbitrates disputes when unusual events happen.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
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