The Online Railbird Report: Antonius Stuck, Sahamies Up, and “Isildur1” Returns
Full Tilt Poker’s high-stakes cash games roared back to life this week, as online poker luminaries Patrik Antonius, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Brian Hastings, Brian Townsend and Gus Hansen hit the virtual felt. $100,000 turn raises and $300,000 pots
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Poker dictionary:
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
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