North Carolina’s Authorities Raid Illegal Video Poker Machine Operators
Police officers in North Carolina’s Cumberland County recently raided as many as 10 businesses and four homes in a video poker bust linked to a three-year-long investigation of allegedly illegal poker machine operation in the county.
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Poker lingo:
- ON TILT - Playing worse (usually, more aggressively) than usual because a player has become emotionally upset.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- ASSAULT RIFLE - In Omaha, hole cards that are A-K-4-7 of any suit(s).
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
- RAINBOW - In flop games, a flop in which no two cards are of the same suit. "The flop was A 9 7 rainbow."
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