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A freeroll tournament is a tournament with no entry fee, although some freerolls require a payment at some point to gain entry to the tournament. In a typical pay-to-play tournament, the prize pool consists of an accumulation of the entry fees minus a "fee" which is retained by the house.
Rake is the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game. It is generally 2.5% to 10% of the pot in each poker hand , up to a predetermined maximum amount. [ 1 ] There are also other non-percentage ways for a casino to take the rake.
Negative freeroll is a colloquialism when the only two outcomes of a situation are neutral, or negative; contrasted with a freeroll, where the only two outcomes are neutral or positive. The phrase is most commonly used in poker , when a player places an all-in wager on a hand that can only either tie or lose.
The Restoration rake was a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat whose heyday was during the English Restoration period (1660–1688) at the court of King Charles II. They were typified by the " Merry Gang " of courtiers, who included as prominent members John Wilmot , George Villiers , and Charles Sackville , who combined riotous ...
In December 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. The company used an unencrypted database to store user account data, including plaintext passwords (as opposed to password hashes) for its service, as well as passwords to connected accounts at partner sites (including Facebook, Myspace, and webmail services).
Password is an American television game show. Two teams, each composed of a celebrity and contestant, attempt to convey mystery words to each other using only single-word clues, in order to win cash prizes. Various incarnations of the show have aired on television since the 1960s.
The band was founded by Elie Zeidan (guitar, vocals) and Samuel George (keyboard) back in 2005, during high school years where they have called the band "Rebellious Phoenix", when they decided to play some sophisticated tunes inspired by the 70's southern rock and hard rock era, along with 80's rock music and 90's post grunge.
A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. [1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. [ 2 ]