Gambling ads could carry wealth warning
Future adverts by casinos, betting shops and internet poker sites may have to carry warnings about the dangers of gambling, under rules being drawn up by the Government before the lifting of the ban on advertising in the gambling industry next year.Under last year’s Gambling Act, gambling operators will be allowed to advertise in all media from September 2007. Tessa Jowell’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Gambling Commission have recently proposed new rules for the industry to p
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Poker dictionary:
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- 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.)
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