Abstract: A method of playing a poker-type game between a group of players and a dealer includes the wagering an ante bet by each player followed by dealing two cards to each player. Thereafter, one or more players wagers a hand bet or loses the ante bet. The dealer deals four subsequent cards to each player with a hand bet; and six cards to himself. Each player determines a best five-card hand from the six cards dealt, and similarly the dealer determines a best five-card hand. Paying off the hand bet and ante of each player occurs: (a) to the player if the five-card hand of the player has a higher poker rank than the five-card hand of the dealer; or (b) to the dealer if the five-card hand of the player has a lower poker rank than the five-card hand of the dealer.

Abstract: A keeper for coiled items such as electrical cord, garden hose or the like, having a first smaller loop to receive a single strand to secure the keeper thereto and a second larger loop to extend around all of the coiled strands to keep them together when the electrical cord, garden hose or the like is rolled up into a coil. The keeper comprises a single flexible strap having cooperative loops and hooks on opposite sides throughout to form the second larger loop and a slot near one end to receive the opposite end through to form the first smaller loop.

Abstract: Optical glass fibers are provided with a primary coating of organo-polysiloxanes, containing acrylic acid ester groups, corresponding to the general formula: ##STR1## where the primary coating is free of inert components capable of migration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for building a brick wall having tensile strength comprising brick with two spaced apart recesses opening to the top and the bottom surfaces of each brick with one recess centered in the left half of each brick and the other centered in the right half of each brick. The bricks in the row above are offset from the bricks in the row below so the recesses in the left of the brick of the row above, line up with the recesses in the right half of the brick of the row below. The pattern continues with each succeeding row so the finished wall has rows of staggered bricks, with recesses lining up from the top of the wall to the bottom. Coupling fasteners are inserted in the recesses of each brick as each row of bricks is laid, and spacers are placed between each row of bricks to hold the brick apart for filling the spaces in with mortar after the entire wall has been assembled.