Poker players battle Internet crackdown
WASHINGTON — Online poker players are nervously awaiting President Bush’s expected signature this week on legislation that would kick them out of their virtual casinos.The measure, designed to block the financial transactions that have fueled Internet gambling, was quietly attached to a port security bill in a flurry of last-minute activity before Congress adjourned in late September.The legislation threatens to cripple the $12 billion online gambling industry, cutting off about half of the wor
Related Poker News:
- Net-betting crackdown freezes funds
- Pub poker boom forces crackdown
- SLED plans video poker crackdown
- Brit press speculates on French gambling crackdown
- Online gambling gets six-month reprieve in U.S.
- Authorities Plan Crackdown On Video Poker Machines
- Poker Stars Added To Civil Complaint Against Company
- Pokers Fever Cools Down
- The WSOP on ESPN: Day 5 a Battle between Poker Legends and Internet Superstars
- Video poker crackdown due
- Nevada Greenlights Online Poker Within State Borders
- Partygaming deals poker pick-up
Poker lingo:
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- ANTE - A small bet all players are required to make before a hand is dealt. Not all games have an ante. Related terms: BLIND, FORCED BET.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
RSS feed
