Jeff Haney hears the pitch for a new digital poker table that takes the cards, chips - and dealers - out of the game
Kenny Rosenblatt recently placed his company’s automated digital poker table in the Hustler Casino, one of Southern California’s temples of poker. His next goal entails extending the reach of his product to the poker rooms of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Poker dictionary:
- TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.
- 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.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- SUICIDE KING - King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
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