French Poker Players Staging Protests Over New Tax

July 16- French poker players are holding sit-ins, usually occupying poker rooms’ tournament seats, in order to protest the fact that a new tax is being passed onto them.

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Poker terminology:

ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
STRAIGHT - A hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence but not in suit.
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.
COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
FREEROLL - [1] A poker tournament that does not charge a buy-in fee; players must earn buy-in credits through previous play at the same establishment. [2] Having a lock on part of a pot (sure to win a greater fraction of the pot than one is betting) and playing to win more or all of it.

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