Gulf Coast Casinos Coming Back
One of the most devastating events of 2005 was the wrath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast of the United States in August and September. Beyond the thousands of deaths, millions (and perhaps billions) in property damage and the continued hardships placed on the people of the area and its local and state economies was the sweeping destruction of the water-based casinos in Mississippi and those in Louisiana. At least, in some sense, the end of the year is bringing those casinos back into business.
Mississippi changed their long standing laws in October and, in the future, will now allow casinos to be built on land…
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Useful poker information:
- OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
- REBUY - [1] To purchase additional chips after an initial buy-in, usually after losing most or all of the previous buy-in. This term is most often used in certain tournaments where if one loses all one's chips, or falls below a certain minimum chip level, for an additional sum of money one can purchase a fixed amount of additional tournament chips. Usually there is a time limit (The "REBUY PERIOD") as to how long rebuys are allowed. [2] The additional chips "rebought" in tournament play.
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- BLACK - When referring to chips, black usually stands for $100 casino chips. "This guy sits down with a stack of blacks and raises the first bet." Not ALL casinos use black for $100 but that is the common usage.
- TOP PAIR - In flop games, having a hole card that matches the highest card on the board.
- OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
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