$164,000 in poker fees eyed for Rota, Tinian projects
In only less than a month since the 17th Legislature took office, two local bills have so far been filed seeking to appropriate a total of $164,000 in poker license fees for Tinian and Rota. An appropriations bill for Saipan has yet to be filed.
Related Poker News:
- Tinian hikes poker fee
- Poker license fees on Rota now worth $2K
- $500 to $1,000 increase in poker fees on Rota pushed
- Another Rota mayor’s staff charged for poker rob
- Tinian Poker Club armed robbery
- Ogo wants poker machines at Rota ports
- Investors and lawyer fight over Rota poker machines
- Poker bill now waiting for Fitial’s signature
- Man gets 7 years for Rota poker robbery
- Squabble over Rota poker machines leads to another lawsuit
- Man in armed robbery at Rota poker pleads guilty
- Poker Fees Paid Up Front in 2006
Useful poker terms:
- FREEZE-OUT - A table-stakes game that continues until a small number of players (possibly only one) has all the money. The major event in The World Series of Poker is a freeze-out game.
- PAT HAND - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more cards. Specifically, a straight, flush, full house or straight flush. One might bluff and represent a pat hand but actually hold something else.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- THIRD STREET - In Stud, the third card dealt to each player.
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
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