West End video poker kingpin’s repairman sentenced
A Westwood man was sentenced in federal court to six months of home detention and three years of probation and fined $20,000 for his conviction of a conspiracy charge connected to his involvement with Pittsburgh’s former video poker kingpin.
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Poker lexicon:
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- DECLARE - In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games; casinos tend to play CARDS SPEAK.
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- BUNNY - An eight. So named because one can easily draw "rabbit ears" above the numeral 8, "paws" in the middle and "feet" at the bottom. (Do this only at home, and not on cards that will be used for play.)
- OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. E.g., 6-7-8-9 is an open-ended straight. Also: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT. Compare: INSIDE STRAIGHT.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
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