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Poker Trivia
Draw Poker: Players bet (ante).
Each receives five cards, face
down. Players may exchange (draw)
with dealer any number of cards.
Highest ranking hand wins.
Texas Hold ‘Em: Players are each
dealt two cards face down. First
round of betting. Three community
cards dealt in center of table (flop)
for all to play off of. Second round
of betting. Fourth community card
(4th Street) dealt face up in flop.
Third round of betting. Fifth community
card (river) dealt in flop.
Final round of betting. The best
five-card hand wins.
Five-Card Stud: Players are dealt
one card face up, one card down.
Player is dealt final three cards
face up. The best five-card
hand wins.
Seven-Card Stud: Players receive
two cards face down, one
face up. Players may call, raise,
fold. Then three cards are dealt to
players face up. Last card is dealt,
face down. The best five-card
hand wins.
Three-Card Monte: Dealer has
three cards, one of which is a Queen.
Dealer shows them to the player
(sucker) and takes bets that the
player can pick out the Queen. Dealer
places cards face down and shuffles
them, using various tricks, often
involving an accomplice, to ensure
the player does not win.
“Passing the Buck”: Referred to a
buckhorn-handled knife that was
used to designate whose turn it
was to be the dealer.
“Dead Man’s Hand”: Aces & Eights
is the hand that James Butler “Wild
Bill” Hickock had when he was shot
in the back of the head while playing
in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
Upping the Ante
America’s True Pastime Has Deep Roots
by Michael E. Lawton
“Play as well as you can, and play a good hand. But
eventually, you’ll get run over by someone with total
and complete luck,” said actor James Woods after losing
on Celebrity Poker Showdown.
You can be the most skilled and experienced
poker player in the world, but
it all still comes down to Lady Luck.
Yet people keep coming back, over and over,
for centuries, with the hopes of winning big.
That’s the real American Dream — the
pursuit of happiness and a royal flush.
There is no specific birthplace or date for
poker. Game historians agree that it is simply
a hybrid of several, vastly different games
from across the globe. India had Ganjifa.
Italy had Primero. England had Brag.
Germany had Pochspiel, which involved
bluffing and passing.
The earliest recorded history of it dates
back to A.D. 900, when Emperor Mu-Tsung
was said to have played domino cards with
his wife.
Persia’s Nas was very influential in the 17th
century. It was a five-player game with a
25-card deck. Persian sailors taught it to
French settlers in New Orleans. The French
had their own game called Poque, which was
the first known game to use a deck of cards
with traditional suits: spades, hearts, clubs,
and diamonds.
Card sharks in New Orleans were hustling
Three-Card Monte. Always looking for new
outlets for quick cash, they copied the popular
European games, added a few twists, and took
it up the Mississippi River. It quickly became
the No. 1 cheating game on riverboats. And
just like that, poker was born.
As the game traveled out West, it changed to
fit the card sharks’ own purposes, and aspects
were added along the way. In 1833, the flush