Profits prompt call for pokie take limits
There are calls for a limit on the amount of money a poker machine can take as the profits made by pubs and clubs grow.
The annual Department of Gaming and Racing report found New South Wales pubs and clubs earned almost $5 billion in poker machine profits during the 2004-2005 financial year.
The figure is a slight increase on the previous year.
Almost $1 billion was being paid…
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Poker talk:
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- ALL-IN - To have all of one's chips in the pot. A player who is all-in cannot be forced out of the pot by more betting, but is only eligible to win that portion of the pot he has contributed to. Generally, a SIDE POT is created each time a player is all-in.
- HOUSE RULE - Rules and interpretations (e.g., use of wild cards, or rules on having to show beaten hands) that are specific to an establishment or even tables within the establishment.
- WALK - A pot won by the last blind when no one opens.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
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