English translation of "battere di nove" - "best of nine ??? or a version with restricted hand (nine high?) [see ref]"

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149 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	battere di nove
Context:	Molte volte mi è accaduto di telefonargli alle sette del mattino per comunicargli qualche.
Keywords:	...sviluppo importante dai fronti di guerra, mentre i miei amici erano ancora al tavolo a farsi dei bluffs o a battere di nove...Poker games.

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149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

best of nine ??? or a version with restricted hand (nine high?) [see ref]

My comment:

These answers are very much shots in the dark, but this might help as you have more context...

My references:

http://www.pagat.com/poker/variants/italian.html

BTW be VERY careful about clicking on any online gambling sites - their cookies will hunt you down for ever. Stick to info sites.

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149 months ago

wrote:

Thanks very much for taking a shot at this question, Amanda. I've never been attracted to or had any interest the game of poker, nor do have any friends or relatives who play it. There is a local radio talk show host who goes all the way from Cleveland, Ohio, to play poker in Sin City, AKA, Las Vegas. He talks about the game all of the time. But I can't stand to listen to his program because he's what some might call a guys' kind of guy, in his case, a macho man blowhard! LOL

149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

I know absolutely nothing about it either, but I do know two people who have had their lives very badly affected by online gambling. The games in your text may have had consequences for some players, but now with the internet it's way too easy to blow your whole life away. So I'm pretty anti the whole scene!

149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

I should have added that there's no way I'm going to call in to that guy's show to see if he would happen to have an idea about what it might refer to. The kind of guys I like to interact with are all, or have been, college professors, but my educated guess is that none of them would have a clue about the meaning of this expression, either!

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