highball

[sagehen]

>
>Curiously, there are no canonical poker games called "highball" that
>I know of, but low poker (in which essentially* the "worst"
>conventional hand wins) is often called "lo-ball" (i.e. straight low,
>as distinct from hi-lo split).   I think I've usually seen it with
>the "lo-ball" spelling, but it's not listed with either spelling in
>the OED, AHD4, or HDAS.
>
>larry
>.... the best hand is 5-4-3-2-A, called a wheel.
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My Hoyle gives the variant "Lowball" (so-spelled) and calls the  5-4-3-2-A
hand a "bicycle."
A. Murie