Bigger is Better… Foxwoods Casino
“When you build it, they will come,” is a famous line from the movie Field of Dreams. Many people called it a baseball movie. I call it is an amazing life lesson told around a baseball theme.
This same belief was certainly shared by the visionary who first built a high-stakes bingo hall in the Connecticut woods in 1986 when Foxwoods Resort and Casino was born. We heard a story about a local resident who went to the first construction site and asked the workers what they were building. When told it was a high-stakes bingo hall, the resident laughed and said, “No one will come all the way out here in the woods for bingo.” No one could ever have been more wrong.
No one could have ever guessed that Foxwoods would become the largest resort casino in the world when they opened their first casino in 1992. Or, that they would grow from that single casino to today’s sprawling six casinos with 340,000 square feet of gaming in a complex that covers nearly 5 million s… Continue reading Bigger is Better… Foxwoods Casino
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Poker dictionary:
- NUT / NUTS - The best possible hand of a given class. Not a LOCK unless all cards have been dealt. The "nut flush" is the highest possible flush, but might still lose to, e.g., a full house. Usually used in Hold'em games.
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- LIVE ONE - The best kind of opponent, a poor player with a lot of money to lose and in a hurry to lose it.
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