Sandstorm chokes Mideast for second day. A massive sandstorm choked the Middle East for a second day Tuesday, grounding air travel and air strikes, and prompting health warnings for millions of residents in Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. Post to Facebook. massive sandstorm has blanketed much of the Middle East. Large parts of Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus were shrouded in a thick cloud of dust that meteorologists said had blown in from Iraq and Syria.
A boat in a game of poker is three of a kind and two of a kind in the same hand, otherwise known as a Full House. Hitting a boat, particularly Hold'em can be a money spinner as often your opponents won't give you credit for more than a set, at best.
Pontoon is the British or domestic version of Blackjack, which in turn is the American version of Vingt-et-un (French for Twenty-one), a French gambling game popular at the court of Louis XV and later, much favoured by Napoleon, especially at St. Helena.ontoon does, on average, have a lower house edge than its American counterparts because of the no-hole-card rule, which means that you are paid out immediately for your winnings on any total of 21, regardless of whether the dealer ends up with a natural (a Blackjack).