Online poker players bet on changing laws
Poker players chafe at online restrictions In the evenings, Don Signore used to go to the local bar to play a few hands of poker. It was the kind of poker gathering where fathers sometimes brought their young daughters, and nobody played for money.
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Poker lingo:
- BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.
- LATE POSITION - For a particular betting round, a player who does not have to act until most of the other players have acted.
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- CALLER - One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers".
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
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