But, of course, I don't know what terminology was used on the American and Australian ships which Melville variously sailed on, deserted from and mutinied on. I might have remarked that an association with the sea could certainly arise from Jack, but I might also have suggested it is a bit of a stretch to get from aloft and alow or below (nautical terms) to high and low (not nautical terms). If the question had been 'what is meant by a nautical flavor?' I would have phrased my posts differently. The low hand must qualify with at least five. Not part of the question, but included in the quoted text, is the nautical connotation that Melville attributed to the game. Hi-Lo games play with the best high hand winning half of the pot, and the best low hand wining the other half. The game, as it happens, was recorded before the first recorded use of Jack to mean a sailor. A phrase used to emphasize the proper rules of a game, as in 'We played without wild cards or other non-standard variations it was all strictly according to Hoyle. The words high and low in the name of the game have no nautical connection whatsoever. The name also includes Jack, being a card in the pack which, when a trump, has a significant role in the play of a hand. Mr Blackjack runs through the Hi-Lo system, the easiest and most popular card counting strategy. After the dealer deals, starting on his left and to himself last, THREE CARDS AT A TIME, each player has to start nine cards. Lesson description Learn how to count cards in minutes. The answer is that the words refer to the high and low trump cards in the game, thereby giving it one of its names. Each player is dealt nine cards initially.

Enkidu68 asked what was meant by high and low.

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