Anti - Online Poker Bills Falter
If you play online poker, or are a professional poker player, or simply keep up with the news, you’re likely aware that sitting in Washington at Congress right now are three bills that would seriously hamper the American poker player and his ability to play online poker. If the bills should pass such steps including requiring Internet Service Providers to report on any poker related activities by their customers would come to pass. For the first time the bills lost some momentum on Thursday when complications arose during the House Judiciary Committee debate…
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Poker argot:
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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