Two Arrested in Greenville Co. Poker Bust

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville County deputies have made arrests in what they call an illegal poker operation. They went to a home on Patton Drive after receiving a number of complaints.

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Poker glossary:

HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
OPENER - The player who opens the betting, especially in draw poker. A hand may have no openers, in which case it is PASSED OUT, i.e., new hands are dealt.
STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
OPEN-HANDED - A category of games characterized by a part of each player's hand being exposed.
STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.

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