Poker Fees Paid Up Front in 2006

For businesses hoping to put off paying their poker licensing fees in the Pacific Islands a recent change in the law came as bad news. Starting this year owners of poker establishments have to pay their annual license fees up front what the government hopes will be a stop gap measure, preventing a loss of millions of dollars in poker revenues each year.

The Poker Machine License Fees Act of 2006 is the new law of the day, changing the old rules that allowed poker license fees to be collected quarterly. The Legislature said that the quarter payment system encourages bad practice, such as false reporting and non payment of fees…

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Poker argot:

RIDER BACK (TM) - A brand of playing cards that feature a bicycle rider on the back of the cards. Often used in home games. Compare: BEE No. 92.
ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
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.
CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.

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