Sweden and Poker Clubs Don’t Mix
The Swedish government has recently announced that illegal poker in the country is running rampant and it plans on doing something about it. Something that involves the police. The Swedish gaming board Lotteriinspektionen produced a report that there are about a hundred poker clubs in Sweden, which is a problem seeing as the only clubs allowed by law are those run by Svenska Spel, the government owned company that has a monopoly on poker, and they don’t run a hundred clubs…
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Poker argot:
- POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- LIVE BLIND - The last and largest blind bet may or may not be LIVE. If LIVE, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live".
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
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