Win or Lose: The Game is On!
However, it would be quite incorrect to categorize poker merely as a game of gamble or fortune. The attraction of this game lies in its flexibility, pace and accessibility round the clock. These aspects have certainly contributed to the growth of online poker industry.
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Poker glossary:
- DEAD MONEY - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
- 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.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- RAGS - Board cards that are small, not suited and not in sequence, e.g., 9-5-2. When "rags flop", it is unlikely that anyone has a good hand, except possibly the big blind in an unraised pot.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
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