The Queensland Council of Social Service has expressed concern over possible plans to expand access to Tabcorp gambling accounts into government-owned Australia Post offices around Queensland.

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Federal regulators gave credit card-wielding gamblers — and the banking industry — six more months before an Internet gambling ban goes into effect.

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The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.

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Problem gambling, animal rights, the price of milk and building a supermarket at a beachside suburb are worrying shareholders.

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Athens/Nicosia, Nov 25 (DPA) Forty-two elderly women, including a 95-year-old, were arrested in a raid on a gambling den on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a media report said Wednesday.

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Are your losses from online gambling deductible? It’s no sure bet — the legality of online gambling in the U.S., and the tax law surrounding the activity, is not really clear.

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Betting odds slang is a series of words used to describe particular common fractional odds.

• Evens – Levels, Scotch
• 2/1 – Bottle
• 3/1 – Carpet, Gimmel
• 4/1 – Rouf
• 5/1 – Hand
• 5/2 – Face
• 6/1 – X’s
• 7/1 – Nevs
• 8/1 – T.H.
• 9/1 – Enin
• 10/1 – Cockle, Net
• 11/10 – Tips
• 33/1 – Double Carpet
• 100/30 – Burlington Bertie

DOTHAN, Ala. — It may be the biggest gamble in Alabama — an $87 million casino and country music destination rising out of the Wiregrass, even as Gov. Bob Riley continues a campaign to shut down gambling halls statewide.

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Poland’s parliament on Friday adopted a law that confines gambling to casinos and phases out the slot machines currently in many Polish cafes, clubs, shops and service stations.

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Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Magna Entertainment Corp. , the bankrupt horse-track owner, is locked in a dispute over gambling rights at its Pimlico Race Course, home of the 135-year-old Preakness Stakes, the second leg of racing’s Triple Crown.

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A proposal to create a gambling commission in Jersey is delayed until more information on the plan is provided.

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Nevada gambling regulators will get a share of money seized from a high-ranking Japanese organized crime figure.

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Less than two weeks after Ohioans approved casinos, gambling opponents are out collecting signatures to keep slot machines out of the state’s seven racetracks.

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This morning’s Oregonian reports on Oregon’s growing dependence on gambling addicts for revenue and The Idaho Statesman reports on bonuses former Sen. Larry Craig paid to loyal staffers who stuck with him after his arrest in a 2007 sex sting.

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satellite

A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament.

scare card

A card that comes that may have improved an opponent’s hand. The Jack of spades on the turn was a scare card because it put both flush and straight possibilities on the board.

scoop

In high-low split games, to win both the high and the low half of the pot.

set

Three of a kind, esp. the situation where two of the cards are concealed in the player’s hole cards.

set-up

A deck that has been ordered, usually King to Ace by suit (spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds). In casinos, it is customary to use a set-up deck when introducing a new deck to the table. The set-up is spread face up for the players to demonstrate that all of the cards are present before the first shuffle. Also called to “spade the deck”.

shootout

A poker tournament format where the last remaining player of a table goes on to play the remaining players of other tables. Each table plays independently of the others; that is, there is no balancing as players are eliminated. This format is particularly common in European televised poker programs, including Late Night Poker.

side pot

A separate pot created to deal with the situation of one player going “all in”.

-way straight draw

A hand in draw poker such as 6♥ 7♥ 8♠ (Joker), in which any of sixteen cards (4 fours, 4 fives, 4 nines, 4 tens) can fill a straight.