All charges dropped in ‘biggest gambling raid since Prohibition’
Last week the Baltimore police charged 80 poker players with illegal gambling in "the biggest gambling raid in the city since the Prohibition" as a police spokesman described the event. This week prosecutors dropped all charges, because the police quoted the wrong statute when charging them.
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Useful poker terms:
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.
- STRAIGHT FLUSH - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence and the same suit.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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