Washington State Poker Issue Hearing Date Set

In Washington State playing online poker is considered a felony, a change in the law that occurred in 2006 and placed online poker players in the same criminal class as other Class C Felons such as child abusers. Renton, WA attorney Lee Rousso has taken action to change the law and requested a hearing to declare the law unconstitutional. Rousso, the Poker Players Alliance’s representative for Washington, has recently received a hearing date…

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Poker jargon:

TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
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.
MISDEAL - A hand dealt incorrectly that must be re-dealt.
OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".

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