Gray Areas in Colorado Poker Laws
COLORADO As reported by the Colorado Springs Gazette: “The Colorado attorney general says poker games played in bars and restaurants statewide are illegal, but 4th Judicial District Attorney John Newsome, like other district attorneys, doesn’t plan a massive crackdown on poker nights.
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Poker slang:
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- NO-LIMIT POKER - A game where there is no maximum bet; a player can wager any amount (perhaps above some minimum) up to whatever money is on the table in front of him.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
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