Catawba’s Video Poker Rights Upheld In Court

It is a story that has been in the telling since South Carolina outlawed video poker in 2000. Because of an exception that centers around a 1993 land claim settlement with federal and state governments, the Catawba Indian Tribe has laid claim to the rights to operate video poker on their lands. The battle has been raging for some time, and seemed to be nearing a conclusion at the end of 2005…

Casino poker language:

OVERPAIR - In Hold'em, a pair in the hole that is larger than any community card on the board.
SHARK - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game.
WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
DRAW - [1] A class of poker games characterized by players being dealt 5 cards face-down and later having the opportunity to replace some of the original 5. "Draw poker" and "Five-card draw" are examples of usage. [2] In stud and Hold'em games, the set of cards that will be dealt later can be collectively called "the draw". [3] To discard some number of cards and have dealt an equal number of replacements.
PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.

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