IGC questions new US financial restrictions on online poker
In a press statement titled “Americans Still Free to Gamble Online” the Interactive Gaming Council, a trade association for Internet gambling operators, pointed to important aspects of the new US legislation this week.
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Poker lexicon:
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- 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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