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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Poker Terms and Definitions
American Airlines – Pocket AcesBetting Cap - A limit on the amount of money a player can lose in a hand, regardless of how much he has in front of him.
Big Slick - Ace-King
Bullets- Pocket Aces
Calling Station – A player who seldoml folds.
Crabs – Pocket 3s
Cowboys – Pocket Kings
Cut-off position – One seat to the right of the button
Ducks- Pocket 2s
Fish Hooks – Pocket Jacks
Floating - When you call an opponents bet on the flop with the intent of stealing the pot later in the hand. You can read more about this play here Poker Bluffing Playbook.
Freeroll – A tournament with no buy in where players can win real money.
Freeze Out – Another name for a small sit n’ go tournament.
Gut Shot – A straight draw where a player only has 4 cards that he can catch to complete his straight.
Hijack Seat - Two seats to the right of the button.
H.O.R.S.E- A poker game that rotates through 5 different types of poker. Hold ‘em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, Stud 8 or Better.
Implied Odds – This concept considers the absolute value of your hole cards, as well as the added value that can be attributed to skill and the ability to win a large pot.
In Position – This means that your opponent will be forced to act before you on each betting street.
Needle – To give a player a hard time about something minor…usually to put them on tilt or make them play bad.
Nit – Another word for a tight player.
Open-Ended – When a player can make 4 cards to a straight (5-6-7-8), so that they will have 8 possible cards that can complete their straight.
Over-call – When you call an opponent’s raise after someone else has already done so.
Pocket Rockets – Pocket Aces
Rake- The % fee taken by a poker room in each hand in a cash game. In a tournament, players pay a one time fee in addition to the tournament buy in.
Rakeback- Payments that are returned to poker players depending upon how much rake they have paid at the poker room. This are usually made via affiliates.
Rock – A tight player who plays very few hands.
Sailboats – Pocket 4s
Short Handed- A table typically with less than 6 players.
Sit ‘n Go - A small tournament, usually 1 table, but sometimes with more. These tournaments start whenever they meet the required number of players, rather than at a specific time.
Slowroll – when you know you have the best hand, but you wait to show your opponent, just to give him some hope before you break the bad news that he has lost the hand.
Snowmen – Pocket 8s
Steaming- When a player starts to play bad because of their temper or misfortune.
Straddle – A third blind that is put on by the player who is usually under the gun.
String Bet – When a player makes a bet, then attempts to go back to his stack for more chips. Once he releases his chips, he cannot go back for more unless he has declared the amount of the raise, or he keeps one hand in the pot.
Suck Out – When a player with the worst hand winds up losing the hand.
Tilt – When a player starts to make bad decisions at the table and starts steaming.
Under The Gun – The player to the left of the big blind who is first to act before the flop.
Walking Sticks – Pocket 7s
Wheel – A straight from Ace to 5
Wrap – A strong draw, usually in Omaha, where an opponent has the upper and lower ends of a straight draw.



