Glossary
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ADM
Italy treats the control of gambling as reserved to the state, which has exercised it since 2000 through AAMS.
Read → glossaryBlinds
A blind is a required bet made before any cards are dealt, used in button games to stimulate action and initiate play, as a standard cardroom rulebook sets out.
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The Autorité nationale des jeux is France's gambling regulator, an independent administrative authority instituted by the ordonnance of 2 October 2019
Read → glossaryBounty
A bounty is a prize collected for eliminating another entrant, run as a distinct tournament format under a casino's posted tournament rules.
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The cost to enter a tournament, or the minimum amount needed to sit down in a cash game at a specific table. Usually twenty times the big blind.
Read → glossaryConnecticut iGaming
Connecticut channels regulated gaming through a narrow set of gatekeepers.
Read → glossaryBelgian Gaming Commission
Belgium's Gaming Commission licenses gambling by class. Operating a casino requires a class A licence, valid fifteen years and capped at nine; all
Read → glossaryBig blind ante
In tournaments using this format, a single ante is posted by the player in the big blind instead of every player anteing each hand, as cardroom rules
Read → glossaryCzech Gambling Act
Act No. 186/2016 sets the Czech framework for gambling: which game types exist, the conditions for operating them, responsible-gambling measures, and
Read → glossaryDelaware iGaming
Delaware's state lottery, which operates within the Department of Finance, launched what it describes as the first authorised online gaming system in
Read → glossaryDGOJ
The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego is the Spanish state body responsible for the regulation, authorisation, supervision, coordination,
Read → glossaryEquity
Equity is the share of the pot a player expects to earn, computed under the assumption that no further betting occurs and using only the cards in that
Read → glossaryExpected value
Expected value is the probability-weighted average of the possible results of a decision, presented in university course material on poker theory as
Read → glossaryFreezeout
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Read → glossaryGGL
Germany's 2021 Interstate Treaty on Gambling permits public gambling only with a permit from the competent German authority; organising or brokering
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Game-theoretically optimal play refers to a Nash equilibrium strategy: one where no player can raise their own expected utility by unilaterally
Read → glossaryHand rankings
Hand rankings order the five-card combinations that decide a pot, as set out in a state-approved cardroom game description for Texas Hold'em.
Read → glossaryGRAI
The Gambling Regulation Act 2024, enacted on 23 October 2024, establishes the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, in Irish Údarás Rialála
Read → glossaryiGaming Ontario
Ontario separates who regulates its online gambling market from who conducts it.
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The independent chip model estimates what a player's standing in a tournament is worth in money.
Read → glossaryInteractive Gambling Act
An Australian federal law of 2001 that sets the rules for companies offering or advertising gambling services, covering gambling that takes place
Read → glossaryKansspelautoriteit
The Netherlands Gambling Authority licenses remote gambling under the Remote Gambling Act, the Wet Kansspelen op afstand, which together with its
Read → glossaryKYC verification
Customer identity verification is the licence condition requiring a remote gambling operator to obtain and verify enough information to establish who
Read → glossaryLate registration
Alternates, players registering late, and re-entries will be sold full stacks.
Read → glossaryMichigan iGaming
The Michigan Gaming Control Board is the state body charged with ensuring fair and honest gaming in the interests of Michigan residents.
Read → glossaryNew Jersey internet gaming
New Jersey regulates internet gambling at state level through the Division of Gaming Enforcement, a unit of the Attorney General's Office that
Read → glossaryNew Zealand Gambling Act
The Gambling Act 2003 was the first New Zealand law to regulate remote interactive gambling, and its stance is prohibitive: such gambling is banned,
Read → glossaryPennsylvania iGaming
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board regulates interactive gaming in the Commonwealth and publishes the roster of operators authorised to offer it,
Read → glossaryNevada online poker
Nevada treats interactive gaming as a distinct licence category in the fee and tax schedule administered by the Nevada Gaming Commission and the
Read → glossaryPot odds
The ratio between the money already in the pot and the amount a player must pay to call in order to keep playing.
Read → glossaryRake
Rake is the fee a cardroom operator takes from the pot in exchange for supplying a dealer, a table and a place to play, defined that way in Florida's
Read → glossaryRe-entry
Under the standardised TDA tournament rules, a re-entry is treated like a fresh entry: re-entrants are sold full starting stacks and randomly draw a
Read → glossaryRemote gambling licence
In Great Britain, an operator needs a licence from the Gambling Commission to provide online gambling facilities to consumers, regardless of where in
Read → glossarySatellite
A satellite is a qualifying tournament whose prizes must include a buy-in to a larger tournament, as North Dakota's gaming rules define it.
Read → glossarySelf-exclusion
Self-exclusion is a formal agreement a person enters into not to gamble, described by Britain's gambling regulator as a tool for those who recognise
Read → glossaryShowdown
The showdown decides the winner when more than one player still contends for the pot after every betting round is finished, as a casino poker room's rule book sets it out.
Read → glossarySide pot
A side pot is the separate pot formed when a player facing a bet larger than their table stakes calls all in, as Colorado's gaming rule for
Read → glossarySpelinspektionen
Sweden's Gambling Act (2018:1138) covers games played for money or prizes with monetary value that are provided in Sweden; online gambling not
Read → glossarySpillemyndigheden
The Danish Gambling Authority treats online casino as one licensed category, covering roulette, blackjack, baccarat, punto banco, poker, online bingo,
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Portugal's gaming regulation and inspection service publishes the legal framework for online play, the Regime Jurídico dos Jogos e Apostas Online
Read → glossaryString bet
A string bet or raise is an attempt to bet or raise in multiple movements that includes a return to one's own stack without first declaring the
Read → glossaryTDA rules
The standardised tournament rule set published by the Poker Tournament Directors Association, a voluntary trade association of the poker tournament
Read → glossaryTexas hold'em
The flop game in which each player receives two down cards as a personal hand, known as hole cards, followed by a round of betting.
Read → glossaryWest Virginia iGaming
West Virginia authorised interactive wagering, presented as iGaming, in fiscal year 2020, when the state legislature passed House Bill 2934.
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