Italian gambling market expected to grow to EUR 61 billion by 2010
MECN has published a report about the Italian gambling market in which they conclude Italy is one of the most promising online and land-based gambling markets due to Italys forerunner role in the liberalization of European gambling markets.
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Poker slang:
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- 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.)
- FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
- 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.
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