The Midweek Briefing: Deeb and Stammen Among Weekly Major Winners
The results to the week’s biggest online poker tournaments thus far.
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Useful poker information:
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- 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.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
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