Gaming Board chief: Video poker plan risky

The Illinois Gaming Board would be responsible for regulating video poker, but its chairman already is voicing concerns about the Legislature’s plan to legalize the controversial machines. Board Chairman Aaron Jaffe said Thursday that video poker could hurt the board’s long-standing efforts to help problem gamblers. The board has a program that allows gambling addicts to ban themselves from …

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Poker lingo:

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.
OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
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.
ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.

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