Gioco Digitale Acquisition by Bwin Confirmed
September 16 - Gioco Digitale chief will continue to manage the poker operations in the Italian market.
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Poker slang:
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
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