Pari-Mutuels await compact decision: No-limit poker, longer hours at stake
The Seminole Compact is all about poker in Bonita Springs. The potential deal between state and tribe means the card room at the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track can stay open later, and its poker buy-in cap can be lifted. The maximum bet on limit poker games would also be removed. However, if the deal falls through, the changes for poker card rooms could be off the table.
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Poker dictionary:
- INSIDE STRAIGHT - Four cards to a straight, where only one rank will complete the hand. E.g., 4-5-6-8 is an inside straight since only a 7 will fill (i.e., complete) the hand. Often called a GUT-SHOT. Compare: BOBTAIL STRAIGHT, OPEN-ENDED STRAIGHT.
- RIVER - The last card dealt in a hand of stud or Hold'em.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- LAY ODDS - To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- RUNNER-RUNNER - A hand made using both of the last two cards dealt.
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