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.
A rule in a poker game meaning that a player may not go into his pocket for money during a hand. He may only invest the amount of money in front of him into the current pot. If he runs out of chips during the hand, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. All casino poker is played table stakes. The definition sometimes also includes the rule that a player may not remove chips from the table during a game. While this rule might not be referred to as table stakes, it is enforced almost universally in public poker games.