Man sentenced in Mat-Su poker room case
PALMER — The last of eight people has been sentenced for operating an illegal poker room in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
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Poker jargon:
- ROYAL FLUSH - An ace-high straight flush, the best possible hand in regular poker.
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- LOOSE - Playing more hands than the norm. Antonym: TIGHT.
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