Poker And Gambling Problems Defined For $900,000

Family First Senator Steve Fielding wonders why nearly a million dollars was spent defining problem gambling rather than fixing it. The actual figure is $900,000, the amount spent over a two year period in the efforts of the Ministerial Council on Gambling to define problem gambling. The result? A 28-word definition that critics say could have been gotten for the price of joining in a few poker hands and asking the players.

The Ministerial Council on Gambling is headed by federal Family and Community Services Minister Kay Patterson and has representatives form territories and states…

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Fri, December 30th, 2005

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  • MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
  • TIGHT - [1] A style of play that entails playing fewer hands than average. Antonym: LOOSE. [2] A FULL HOUSE.
  • RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
  • TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
  • RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
  • MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
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