Colleges and online poker bans: call or fold?
It’s a question facing every university in the nation as online poker has become a $12 billion industry fed largely by young gamblers.Yes, college students such as onetime Lehigh University sophomore class President Greg Hogan are going to lose their money, and maybe even their careers, gambling online. But is it a university’s duty, or even right, to stop them?What was billed as a timely discussion of online gambling Wednesday at DeSales University quickly turned into a debate pitting personal
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Poker lexicon:
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- FLAT CALL - To call a bet. Emphasizes that the caller did not raise.
- SUITED - Two or more cards all the same suit. Ant: OFF-SUIT.
- BLANK - Used in describing stud and Hold'em games. Refers to a dealt card that does not offer any value; stating the actual rank and suit would detract from a description of the hand. "The last card was a blank.".
- COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
- FIXED LIMIT - A betting structure where the amount of each bet is a specific fixed quantity. Usually specified as A-B, where A is the amount to bet in the first few betting rounds and B (larger than A) is the amount bet in the later rounds. Related terms: FLAT LIMIT, NO LIMIT, POT LIMIT, SPREAD LIMIT.
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