Court tosses suit blocking video poker
LAFAYETTE, La. A state appeals court has tossed out a lawsuit that blocked Evangeline Downs from offering video poker at its off-track betting parlor in Henderson.
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Poker slang:
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- SET - In Hold'em, three of a kind where two of the cards are hole cards.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- 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.

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