Washington State bans online poker
The state of Washington quietly passed a bill that makes playing online poker illegal. The bill, SB 6613, will officially take effect on June 7th, 2006. From then on the mere act of playing poker on the Internet in Washington State could get you in prison for 10 years, the maximum penalty associated with a Class C Felony.
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Poker lexicon:
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- 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.
- FIRE - To make the first bet in a betting round. Used to emphasize that the player bet when a check was possible, showing strength.
- BIG SLICK - In Texas Hold'em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
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