High court rejects tribe’s poker appeal

The Catawba Indian Nation suffered another setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the S.C. tribe’s bid to have video poker machines on its reservation. The U.S. Supreme Court refused, without comment, to hear the tribe’s appeal of an S.C. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that a state ban on video poker applies to tribal lands. The tribe contended its 1993 settlement with the …

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• HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
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