High stakes in online poker regulation

The vast sums generated by rakes and entry fees for online poker games have often been cited as a disincentive to corruption. Insiders at the behemoths of the poker world are making so much money legitimately, says this line of analysis, that they’ve no reason to cheat. The recent controversy involving one of the world’s biggest operators, absolutepoker.com, turned that analysis on its head - …

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Poker slang:

• 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.
• GOOD GAME - A game with players worse than you so that you can expect to win a lot of money.
• CASE - The fourth card of a particular rank, as in "he folded the case 9" when describing where all the 9s were in a hand. Comes from the game of Faro where an employee of the house, called the "case keeper". kept track of the number of each rank of card remaining.
• TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
• STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
• TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".