Card game trivia
Jan. 12th, 2004 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosI've had a few of these. Instead of saying, "I've got crap," I can say I have a...
Yarborough (YAHR-bur-o) noun
In a card game, a hand in which no card is above a nine.
[After Charles Anderson Worsley, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), who is said to have bet 1,000 to 1 against the occurrence of such a hand.]
Of course, you can have a four of a kind and still have a Yarborough...
Yarborough (YAHR-bur-o) noun
In a card game, a hand in which no card is above a nine.
[After Charles Anderson Worsley, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), who is said to have bet 1,000 to 1 against the occurrence of such a hand.]
Of course, you can have a four of a kind and still have a Yarborough...
