NFL Helped Push Anti Poker Law
Not many fans of fantasy football may be aware of this, but it appears that the NFL were at least partially responsible for the momentum that lead to the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that passed in October of 2006. The NFL hired lobbyist Marty Gold, who was a former counsel to UIGEA proponent Bill Frist, to help push through the UIGEA - which not continentally exempts fantasy football from its rulings. The NFL runs its own fantasy football site and gets royalties from others, and so stood to benefit by a law that cut back on other forms of gambling but legitimized fantasy football.
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Useful poker information:
- BICYCLE - The best possible low hand: A-2-3-4-5. More common term: WHEEL.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- 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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