$8bn bet on SA pokies
SOUTH Australians bet more than $8 billion on poker machines last year, latest figures show.
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Poker glossary:
- STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
- GUT SHOT - A draw to an inside straight, as in 2-3-4-6.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- FULL OF - Describes a full house. "Fives full of queens" is 5-5-5-Q-Q.
- LEAK - To show one's hole cards (often unknowingly).
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