Poker Players Alliance Renews Objection to Internet Gambling Ban, Points to Survey as Support
WASHINGTON — (PRESS RELEASE) — At a roundtable panel discussion today, The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organization of more than 20,000 American poker players, renewed its objection to online gambling prohibition, highlighting a new survey by ICR market research that finds nearly 75 percent of Americans oppose moves by Congress to ban Internet poker.
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Useful poker information:
- 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.
- TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
- SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
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