Las Vegas Poker Spree Brothers Facing Jail Over ATM Thefts
TWO poker aces were facing jail yesterday after stealing £150,000 from cash machines to fund a Las Vegas gambling spree.
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Poker lexicon:
- MARKED CARDS - Cards that have been (illegally) altered so that their value can be read from the back.
- LOWBALL - Generic term for poker where the lowest hand wins.
- 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.
- BAD-BEAT JACKPOT - In some cardrooms, a prize that is shared by the players in a game, when a very good hand (usually Aces full, or better) is beaten by a higher hand. Jackpots are usually financed by taking a drop ($1 is a common amount) from every pot. A typical division of the jackpot will give the losing hand 50 %, the winning hand 25 %, and the other players at the table share the remaining 25 % of the Jackpot.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
- 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.)

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