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Catching Cards: Getting favorable cards.

Cowboys: Kings.

Flush: Five cards of the same suit.

Four of a Kind: Four cards of the same rank.

Full Boat: Another name fer a full house

Full House: A hand consisting of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.

Joker: A card that can be labeled whatever suit and rank ye want to give it.

Progressive Jackpot: The big jackpot that grows progressively as people play. Fer each spin/hand played the machine adds a small credit to the running jackpot total. Sometimes several machines are linked up together to form a combined large jackpot, and also several casinos may join together to form an inter-casino progressive jackpot that can generate very large sums.

Rainbow: Three or four cards of different suits.

Royal Straight Flush: An ace high straight flush. Also called a Royal Flush, or simply a Royal.

Straight: Five cards of consecutive ranks or in sequence.

Straight Flush: A hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks and of the same suit.

Suit: Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.

Wild Card: see Joker.