The Poker Year in Review
As the clock ticks off the last minutes of 2008, its a good time to look back at the year that was in the world of poker. Sadly, the very biggest story of the year was a negative one, with scandal rocking the online poker world.
Related Poker News:
- Everest Poker Named Poker Operation of the Year for Second Straight Year
- Poker Room Review: The Rio
- Everest Poker Wins Prestigious Gaming Industry Award for Second Consecutive Year
- TOC Victory Tops Year in Poker
- 888 Poker wins the 2011 EGR Awards Poker Operator of the Year
- PKR Wins Top Industry Award
- Online Poker Room Review For 2005
- Online Poker Legislation: The Year in Review
- Poker event to help fund boy’s bone marrow transplant
- World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions Reader Review by
- PurePlay Poker Wins Innovation of the Year Award
- World Championship Poker: Featuring Howard Lederer - All In Review [PlayStation 2 PSP]
Poker terminology:
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- TO GO - The current betting level, as in "$20 to go" meaning every player must contribute $20 (total) or drop. A $10 raise would then make the pot "$30 to go".
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
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