Lehigh Valley private clubs are counting on Rendell to legalize video poker
Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell hopes the machines will generate tax income One of Pennsylvania’s worst-kept secrets has been that for decades many of its 3,000 licensed social clubs used money from illegal poker machines to provide members with $1 drafts and cheap food.
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Useful poker terms:
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
- POCKET ROCKETS - In Hold'em, a pair of aces for hole cards.
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- STUCK - Down a nontrivial amount of money, as in "he's stuck $800".
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
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