Web gambling sites keep advertising, despite crackdown
NEW YORK - Despite repeated warnings from law enforcement officials, offshore Internet gambling companies have continued to advertise heavily in the United States. Giant billboards in Manhattan, some several stories high, brazenly advertise Internet gambling sites like Sportsbook.com, now based in Antigua. Promotions for BetUS, a Canadian and Costa Rican company that takes wagers on American sports, run regularly on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Fantasy football magazines on s
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Poker argot:
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- NO-LIMIT POKER - A game where there is no maximum bet; a player can wager any amount (perhaps above some minimum) up to whatever money is on the table in front of him.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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