Money Flow from Finns to Foreign Poker Outfits
Online poker players from Finaland spend a lot of money playing the game they love, and a big chunk of it is going to foreign online poker rooms, according to a report form the Keski-Uusimaa newspaper. The figure is around fifty million euros each and every year according to the report, which also points out that this money could be used for public works if it could be shunted domestically. How much? The director of the Finnish lottery company Veikkaus, Ilkka Juva, thinks as much as two thirds.
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Poker slang:
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
- POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
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