Inside Gaming: Global iGaming Summit in Session and First Quarter Report Cards out for Las Vegas
The gaming industry’s top minds gathered this week at the Global iGaming Summit in Montreal to discuss the junction between online gaming and land-based casinos. While they weren’t imagining juicy online profits and bemoaning the UIGEA, company…
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Poker lexicon:
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- 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.
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