| 单词 | inside straight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinside straight a. In Poker and other games: A series of five cards in sequence but not of the same suit. inside straight, four cards which will form a straight if a fifth card of a particular value is added. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards cater-trey?a1500 mournival1530 sequence1575 pair royal1608 septieme1651 tierce1659 pair1674 purtaunte1688 quart major1718 matrimonya1743 queen-suit1744 quart1746 prial1776 flux1798 fredon1798 tricon1798 intrigue1830 straight1841 marriage1861 under-sequence1863 straight five1864 double pair-royal?1870 run?1870 short suit1876 four1883 fourchette1885 meld1887 doubleton1906 canasta1948 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand > combinations of cards triplet1864 royal flush1868 bobtailed flush1873 bobtail flush1875 skip1880 royal straight1883 four flush1887 skip straight1887 inside straight1934 1841 Spirit of Times 1 May 102/1 This last name [sc. Falsefu] is taken from the players of twenty-deck poker, and is used by them to represent a ‘straight’, or ace, king, queen, jack, and ten. 1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 39 The Yankees had a strait, which would have taken Forrest and raked down the pile. 1882 Poker; how to play it 16 A Sequence (sometimes called a ‘straight’). 1882 Poker; how to play it 55 If more than one player holds a straight, the straight headed by the highest card wins. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 84 A ‘four’; which can only be beaten when ‘straights’ are played by a ‘straight flush’—in other words, a sequence of five cards, all of the same suit. 1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 182 (Poker) In straights, the highest card of the sequence wins. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xiii. 210 He always would play jack, queen, king, ace, deuce for a straight. 1934 M. Ellinger Poker 163 The odds against filling an inside straight flush are 3 to 1. 1951 Amer. Speech 26 99/2 Inside straight, a possible straight which is open in the middle, for example: 4-5- -7-8. It takes a gut shot to hit it. 1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave p. ix I can only hope that my good old partners, replete with full houses and straights, will think I am bluffing. 1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland i. 11 Never draw to an inside straight. < as lemmas |
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