So, you play poker... whether you are good
or bad, win or lose, I am sure you do not know all of the
following fun facts. These facts are pretty interesting to
know for any type of player.
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Playing
cards were invented in China
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A fifth suit was added in 1937 but never caught on
because people had to buy all new decks
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At least 65,000,000 Americans regularly play poker
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Dead mans hand is Aces and Eights
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Getting dealt 10,2 is referred to as Doyle Brunson
because he won back to back World Series with the
hand.
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In the 1800s, 2,000 to 2,500 riverboat gamblers played
poker on American Waterways. By contemporary accounts,
no more than four of these poker players were honest
all the time. A straight beat a flush at this time.
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Las Vegas Casinos are not legally obligated to pay
off their gambling debts
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Due to French influence, Spades represent Royalty,
Diamonds represent Merchants, Clubs represent the
peasants, and hearts represent the clergy.
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Edmond Hoyle lived to be 97, but died 150 years before
Poker was invented.
Playing cards were introduced in Europe in the 1300s
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When Columbus landed in 1492 in North America, his
men plucked wide leaves from trees, drew pictures
on them and played cards.
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Historians generally agree that Bill Hickock was a
lousy poker player.
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Groucho Marx got his name from carrying his poker
money in a "grouch bag"
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Former President Richard Nixon won $6,000 playing
poker in his first two months in the U.S. Navy during
WWll. That is roughly equal to $42,640 in 2004 dollars.
He used that money as well as more poker winnings
to finance his run for the U.S. Congress in 1946,
which he won.
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| Some
interesting facts about video poker by gambling guru Mark
Pilarski |
In
video poker, only 21% of the hands dealt are
winning hands of Jacks or better and 79% are downright dogs.
Herein lies the difference between the winning and the losing
player. what you do with those 79% of the hands that need to
be groomed into winning greyhounds.
The
best way to give yourself the greatest chance of victory at
video poker is to read, absorb and pledge allegiance to the
following playing tips:
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Seek out Jacks or better machines that play 9 coins for
a full house and six coins for a flush.
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Should you decide to play a progressive video poker machine
that pays 8 coins for a full house and 5 for a flush, play
on a progressive where the jackpot is over $250 on a nickel
machine, $2,500 on quarter, and $10,000 for the dollar.
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Always bet the maximum amount of coins on a progressive
machine to get the bonus for royal flushes.
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If you are a novice player, play on the lowest denomination
machine until your level of expertise rises.
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All hail the Jack! Some players don't realise that the ace
is not the most important card in the deck. Holding the
jack over the ace gives you more opportunities of making
more lucrative hands than the ace would.
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Acquire video poker skills using either a computer or a
hand-held video poker game. The major benefit of this type
of training is it the benefit of testing your skills with
no financial risk or ruin. The best way to learn video poker
is either playing Deuces Wild and Jacks-or-better.
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Never keep a kicker with any pair. Holding a kicker to any
pair reduces your return by 5%.
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Never draw four cards if you can draw three to a royal flush.
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Don't break a flush even if you can draw one to straight
flush, but always break a flush to draw a royal.
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Never break a straight to draw a straight flush, never draw
five if you have Jacks-or-better and don't keep a ten for
a four card draw.
- Flop-the
first three community cards dealt face up at the same time
onto the table.
- kicker-the
highest unpaired card in a players hand.
In
Monte Carlo in 1873 an Englishmen named Joseph Jagger identified
a biased roulette wheel where nine numbers were appearing more
often than randomness would allow. "Jagger pounced, and
before the casino bosses figured out what was going on, he walked
away with $350,000 dollars a cosiderable sum in those days...!
Hench, the popular saying today, "He broke the Bank"
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