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Fun Poker Facts - Little known facts about the game of poker

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.
Playing cards were invented in China.

At least 65,000,000 Americans regularly online texas holdem

A fifth suit was added in 1937 but never caught on because people had to buy all new decks
At least 65,000,000 Americans regularly play poker

Dead mans hand is Aces and Eights

Getting dealt 10,2 is referred to as Doyle Brunson because he won back to back World Series with the hand.

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.

Las Vegas Casinos are not legally obligated to pay off their gambling debts

Due to French influence, Spades represent Royalty, Diamonds represent Merchants, Clubs represent the peasants, and hearts represent the clergy.

Edmond Hoyle lived to be 97, but died 150 years before Poker was invented.

Playing cards were introduced in Europe in the 1300s

When Columbus landed in 1492 in North America, his men plucked wide leaves from trees, drew pictures on them and played cards.

Historians generally agree that Bill Hickock was a lousy poker player.

Groucho Marx got his name from carrying his poker money in a "grouch bag"

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.

The earliest known game of texas holdem was played in Robstown, Texas, in the early 1900s. The game was brought to Las Vegas by a group of Texan gamblers and card players, including Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson, Crandell Addington, and Amarillo Slim

If you want to bluff someone in a no limit texas holdem game, who already has most of their chips invested in a pot, you will likely not be able to scare them away with a big raise. For example, in a pot where my opponent has invested 500 chips and he only has 100 chips left, putting them all in will not likely make them fold unless they have absolutely nothing and they just tried to pull a bluff on you. I would say that 90% of poker players call if they are pot committed, even when they don’t have the greatest hand. Don’t bother bluffing under those circumstances. This kind of situation happens more frequently in online texas holdem games where just a click of a button makes the players go all-in.

A classic example in poker tournaments is when going all-In Against a Pot-Committed Short Stack

This classic poker mistake can simply be avoided by paying attention to the opponents’s stack. If you are up against a stack that is significantly smaller than yours, and after three rounds of betting that finds you both substantially invested in the pot, you go all-in on the river with next to nothing. You figure that he's not going to risk going broke to call you, but what you failed to notice is that he only has a few chips in front of him in comparison to the chips in the pot. If he's got anything, he's going to call you. He might not be happy about it, but he will call, and your attempt to scare him will result in him stacking even more of your chips.
In this situation, you will need to make your bluff before your opponent has committed himself to the pot. How do you know when such is the case? Well, generally, if a player has more of his chips in the pot than in his stack, then he is more or less pot committed, and it will be very hard for him to fold his hand. In a texas holdem tournament, your opponent is also pot-committed when he believes that folding will leave him with so few chips that he won't have much of a chance in the tournament anyway. He probably should have pushed them in already, but even if he hasn't done so, you will have a hard time getting him to fold here. Don't get greedy. Check it down, and if he bets, then make a decision based on the value of your hand. Don't try to bluff someone who is mathematically obligated to call you. Good luck on your live or online texas holdem games and check this section again for more one minute poker tips.

In this poker section, I will include quick tips that I found useful in playing online texas holdem. I will try to keep the posts of this section short and to the point. The reason for this is to have a look at these tips every now and then, and refresh my memory quickly either before playing a poker game with friends or maybe after a bad beat playing online texas holdem. The following quick tips are either things to avoid in playing poker or tips to do in a poker game. They will be either my personal experience or some tip I heard from a friend/article or other source. Enjoy and if anyone has any quick poker tips please submit in the posts comments and I can include.

1 ) Don’t Bluff Pot Committed Opponents

Bad beats are common in poker but this one is special. Imagine if you get out from the WSOP main event with quad Aces.