Poker kings who stole £150,000 to fund Vegas spree jailed for 18 months
TWO professional poker players who stole more than £150,000 from cash machines to bankroll a Las Vegas gambling spree have each been jailed for 18 months.
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Poker talk:
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- HOOK - A Jack. So named because the "J" resembles a hook.
- FIFTH STREET - In stud poker, the fifth card to be dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the last card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is RIVER (q.v.).
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- FLAT LIMIT - A variant of fixed limit where all bets are the same amount.
- HOYLE - Edmund Hoyle (1769-?) was the authoritative source for rules of card games. Hoyle is to card rules as Webster is to word definitions.
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