Legalizing online poker debated in California Senate hearing
The question bitterly divides California casino tribes, fires up video poker players and alarms anti-gambling activists: Should California legalize an online vice Internet poker to rescue beleaguered state coffers?
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Poker argot:
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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