South Carolina Takes Second Look at Poker
When North Carolina fought its war against video poker machines, it could have been paralleled with the struggle South Carolina had over poker in general, but it seems that SC might ease up on poker, at least as a “recreational activity”. State Representative Wallace Scarborough of Charleston wants to reexamine the longtime ban on poker playing in hopes of updating the state’s 200-year-old gaming laws - some of which outlaw games like Monopoly. If Scarborough gets his way, private home games of poker would no longer come under the eye of SC police.
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Useful poker terms:
- STACKED [DECK] - A deck that has been arranged to give one player a huge advantage. Also: RIGGED.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- FACE CARD - A jack, queen or king (a card with a face on it, not joker).
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
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