Online Poker Pro Players Worry About Law

While the anti online poker bill sits in the Senate chambers, already having passed through the House of Representatives, the faceless crowd of online poker players worry about what might come to pass. For many, who now make a living playing poker online, it could mean the end of an income and the start of a tough row to hoe. The law, which if passed would make it illegal to use credit cards to fund online poker rooms, and otherwise interfere with American’s ability to play poker for money online, may not pass as previous incarnations have not…

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Poker terminology:

MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
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.
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.

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