Anti-Poker Bill Delayed
In what can only be described as good news for the online poker industry, the H.R. 4411 Online Gambling bill will not be receiving US Senate action anytime soon, according to Reuters. The bill, which purposes to ban Internet gambling, is facing opposition in the US Senate after passing the House of Representatives recently…
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Poker jargon:
- MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- MIDDLE POSITION - Betting positions approximately halfway around the table from the first player to act.
- CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- SEAT POSITION - The actual seat a player has, normally numbered sequentially starting with 1 as the first seat to dealer's left. Not to be confused with POSITION in a particular pot. Typically unrelated to play of a hand but often important in peripheral aspects, e.g.: "Seats 1 and 10 are nonsmoking here", "Seat 5 has a good view of the table", "Seat 3 is in a high-traffic area".
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