15 Interesting facts about poker
Posted on January 15, 2010
Filed Under Poker General
Poker is a popular game with a rich history. There are a lot of legends and superstitions, records and interesting facts about this game. The most exciting are awaiting for you. Read them!
1. With 52 cards of standard pack of cards you can make 2.598.960 possible combinations.
2. Richard Nixon, 37th president of the USA was fond of playing poker. Just thanks to this card game he managed to gather enough money for his electoral campaign.
3. 19 from 43 presidents of the USA played poker.
4. Phillip Helmut , the youngest poker player, who has become the winner of WSOP, shaved his hair clean after the failure in forecasting the results of WSOP.
5. Jonny Moss has become the only winner of WSOP, without winning one event of the tournament. If he played online with the help Poker Leak Buster, this mistake would be noticed by other players.
6. The main reason how becomme the winner of a poker game is not a good technics of playing, but a possibility to induce your opponents to make mistakes. Poker Leak Buster – is a program, where you can learn how to play this way.
7. The replacement of a card pack happens after 15 minutes of ceaseless game in a casino.
8. Every from four kings in a card pack symbolizes 1 of the historical rulers: the king of clubs means Alexander Makedonski, the king of hearts means Karl I, the king of spades means King David, the king of diamonds – Julius Ceasar.
9. The biggest sum of money – 9 152 416$ was received by Peter Eastgate, Danish poker player of 22 years, in 2008 at WSOP. And the biggest online bank with the sum of 1 356 947$ was divided between Patric Antonius and a Swedish man under the nickname Isildurl, who used Poker Leak Buster for playing online.
10. In ancient times the most important card in a pack was not an ace, it was a … king. And an ace was the lowest card.
11.Dead Mans Hand is a combination of cards AA88, which got such a name after the “Wild Bill” Hikok was shot with these cards in his hands. The meaning of the 5th card is unknown.
12. In 1937 cards manufacteres added the 5th suit to a standard pack. New suit had differnt colors and names in the USA it was Eagles of green color, in the UK – Royals of blue color. Soon, the manufacteres realized that it had been a bad idea to add the 5th card and the production of it was stopped.
13. There is an opinion that a card pack has a mysterious metaphisical meaning: 52 cards symbolize 52 weeks of the year, 4 suits – the seasons of the year, 13 cards of one suit -13 phases of the moon.
14. Phillip Helmut is a recordsman if to speak abot the number of bracelets he has won at WSOP. He has 11 of them.
15. It’s a bad sign to play poker in a room, where there is a dog. So, it’s better to play online and use a poker software Poker Leak Buster to improve your skills.
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