N.H. Senate votes for poker tax
CONCORD (AP) The New Hampshire Senate has rejected allowing video lottery machines at the state’s four race tracks, but voted to tax Texas Hold ‘Em poker games.
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Useful poker information:
- RAISE - To wager more than the minimum required to call, forcing other players to put in more money as well.
- DRAWING DEAD - A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent's hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold'em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- BAD GAME - Any game in which you figure to be the loser, because the other players are better than you.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- MANIAC - A player who bets, raises and reraises without regard to the quality of his hand. Most often found in flop games.
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