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Semi-Bluff

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To wager aggressively with a hand that has a moderate but unfavorable chance of winning in a showdown or with a drawing hand, with the intent of causing all opponents to fold but retaining the possibility of a win if a showdown does occur.

Noun
The act of representing a marginal hand as a strong hand through aggressive wagering, intending to cause all opponents to fold but retaining the possibility of a win if a showdown does occur; the act of semi-bluffing.

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Erick Lindgren

Erick Lindgren

Nickname: E-Dog

Birthplace: Burney, Calif.-USA

Birth date: Aug. 11, 1976

Education: High School; Dropped out of Butte Junior College

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WPT Titles: 2

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open/close Century Casino Millennium launches Texas Hold'em poker tournaments in Prague
October 09, 2008
Century Casino Millennium in the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic, will be offering Texas Hold'em tournaments five times a week.
open/close Jimmy McSweeney wins record breaking Ladbrokes.com Irish Poker Festival
October 09, 2008
Capacity-busting 832 entrants create a prize pool of €416,000 at Killarney, Ireland tournament.
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October 08, 2008
PKR has unveiled PKR.tv – a stand-alone internet channel dedicated to broadcasting episodes of the PKR TV series.
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October 07, 2008
Renowned casino security consultant Steve Forte has been indicted in New Jersey in a high-tech poker scam nearly 16 months after his arrest.
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open/close Gambling and the Law: Is poker -- like chess -- a game of skill?
October 10, 2008
With a little help from none other than Mark Twain, Professor I Nelson Rose makes a case for poker as a skill game.
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October 09, 2008
It was less than three weeks ago that DuplicatePoker.com was trumpeting itself as "one of the fastest growing online poker communities" after registering its 250,000th player. But on Sunday, the skill-based online poker site shut down, claiming it was a "victim of the global financial crisis."
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October 09, 2008
After losing a quad-kings hand to a Royal Flush, a player at Intertops was paid a consolation prize of $54,411.87 when he hit the Bad Beat jackpot.
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October 09, 2008
Sportech announces that Littlewoodspoker.com has renewed and upgraded its Web site for online poker and is offering players new games and bigger sign-on bonuses.
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