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There are 10,200 possible straights, so the odds of getting a straight given a five card hand are 32359:128, or approximately 253:1.
Two straights with the same high card are of equal value, and split any winnings (straights are the most commonly tied hands in poker, especially in community card poker games).
Straights are often described by the highest card, as in "queen-high straight" or "straight to the queen".
Straight edge, also known as sXe, is a lifestyle and (counter cultural) subculture, closely associated with punk or hardcore punk music in the United States, which advocates abstinence in relation to tobacco, alcohol and recreational drug use (especially psychoactive and stimulant drug use), and in relation to promiscuous sexual behaviour.
Some straight edge individuals do not use caffeine, or they choose to be vegetarian or vegan.
According to posts on both BoingBoing [1] and Beatrice.com [2], there was a vegetarian restaurant called "Straight Edge Kitchen" in New York City's Greenwich Village at that time, and a set of illustrations in a 1906 issue of the New York World newspaper shows a group of "Straight-Edgers" eating at a vegetarian restaurant.
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