PM backs policy to slash poker machine numbers
The Prime Minister has strongly backed the Victorian Opposition’s new gaming policy. Liberal leader Ted Baillieu announced yesterday that, if elected, his party will remove 20 per cent of poker machines from Victoria from 2012.
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Poker lexicon:
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- ONE-EYED - The jack of hearts, jack of spades or king of diamonds. So named because the characters are drawn in profile, thus showing only one eye.
- KICKER - In hands containing pairs and trips, the highest card not matched. In draw games, sometimes a card kept for deception purposes.
- OPEN - Make the first bet in a hand, especially in draw poker.
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