A Conservative Case for Internet Poker
Poker, the American-born game of skill that has captured the imagination of the world in recent years, is under threat from some surprising forces. We at the Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organization, support individual players’ rights and are fighting against federal legislation that would compromise those rights.Eminent historian John Lukacs recently called poker “the game closest to the Western conception of life where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where m
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Poker slang:
- FISH - A player who loses money. An old saying is "If you can't spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.".
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- TAP - In no-limit games, to wager all of one's money in one bet.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
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