Seminoles bump up their slots, and how poker is about people
If you didn't see it in our paper, here's the big news out of the Seminole Indians: They're setting up Vegas-style slots pronto, rather than waiting for all the legal stuff.
Our John Holland has this story, and some people's take on the ramifications.
Meanwhile, our poker columnist provides yet another example of how the game is more about the people that it is about the cards and, as he says, "piecing together the story," to figure out what his opponent likely has.
Curious if anyone would've laid this hand down in this situation, fearing a set, or whether you'd have raised more, considering the fear of a flush?
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
