Goodlatte Proposes Banning Internet Gambling
U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte introduced a bill to prohibit online Internet gambling on Thursday.Co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-9th, the bill seeks to crack down on illegal offshore gambling and illegal gambling that crosses state lines over phone lines and the Internet.”These activities suck billions of dollars per year out of the U.S. economy, serve as a vehicle for money laundering, undermine families, and threaten the ability of states to enact and enforce their own laws,” Goodlatte sai
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Poker dictionary:
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- POT LIMIT - A game where the maximum bet is determined by the size of the pot at the time. Note that a player wanting to raise first calls the bet, then totals the pot to determine the maximum amount he can raise.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- FAVORITE - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that figures to be the winner. Ant: UNDERDOG.
- JOKER - A 53rd card in the deck, distinct from the others, used as a wild card or as a BUG.
- 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.
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