D-Day for ClubsNSW war on poker machine taxes
TODAY is D-Day for ClubsNSW and the 50,000 people who work in the industry. ClubsNSW chairman Peter Newell expects an offer from NSW Premier Morris Iemmas chief of staff when they meet today to try and resolve poker machine tax increases on the club industry.
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Poker argot:
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- BUNNY - An eight. So named because one can easily draw "rabbit ears" above the numeral 8, "paws" in the middle and "feet" at the bottom. (Do this only at home, and not on cards that will be used for play.)
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
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