Suspect in poker heist acquitted
A man accused of bursting in on a high-stakes poker game in 2006 and stripping Alabama Civil Appeals Court Judge Terry Moore and other players of as much as $40,000 was acquitted of first-degree burglary Thursday in a Mobile courtroom.
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Poker slang:
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- LOCK - A hand that cannot be beat under any circumstances. Also: NUTS.
- 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.)
- AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- PAT - Holding or being dealt a pat hand. "I'm pat" would mean "I don't want to draw any cards.
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