Select States Cut Off From Online Poker Room
Vip.com online poker room has picked out specific states in America and said they won’t be able to play on the site in response to the new law recently signed into being by President Bush. Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington, Indiana, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, and South Dakota are the states, and residents in those eleven places will not be able to reach VIP.com poker site. These specific states have legislation that bans online gambling…
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Poker glossary:
- BLUFF - To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold.
- 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.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- ACTION - Money that is being bet. "NO ACTION" means a hand or game has few bettors and fewer raisers. "Gimme some action" is ostensibly a plea for calls and raises.
- SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
- 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.

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