SC Fires Back In Poker Ruling

The battle between the state of South Carolina and the resident Indian tribe, the Catawba Indian Nation, continued recently when the state took steps to clear up a recent bit of check-raising by the Catawbas.

State Attorney General Henry McMaster filed a motion arguing that the states 1993 settlement with the Nation means video poker is a no-go on their reservation. The motion included affidavits from former Gov. Carroll Campbells senior counsel Mark Elam and US Representative John Sprat.

The appeal was filed in response to a judges ruling that authorized video poker machine operation on the Catawbas York County reservation…

Poker jargon:

MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.

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