Poker machine duopoly scrapped in Vic
The Victorian Government has opened up the state’s gaming industry by scrapping the duopoly over poker machines.
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Poker glossary:
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- FLOP - [1] In Hold'em, the first three community cards, dealt simultaneously. [2] To deal a flop, or to make a hand on a flop. "I flopped trips".
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
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