Your Daily Facts about Poker
More than one in five Americans regularly play poker that’s 40 to 50 million people.
It is estimated 15 Million Americans play poker online for money 76% are male and 58% are under 35 years of age.
The World largest producer of playing cards located in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States Playing Card Company. The company was founded in 1867.
The United States Playing Card Company makes over 100,000,000 decks of playing cards each year.
In the United States more than 70 million decks of cards are sold each year.
It is believed, but not proven, that playing cards were most likely invented in China in 1120 AD
In the 1300′s playing cards were introduced to Europe.
In 1492 when Columbus landed in America, his crew picked leaves from trees, drew pictures on them and played cards.
In the four suits, Spades are to represent Royalty, Clubs represent the peasants, Diamonds represent Merchants, and Hearts represent the clergy.
On a deck of cards, the King of spades represents David, King of Israel; the King of Clubs represents Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia; the King of Hearts is Charlemagne, King of France; and the king of Diamonds is Caesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome.
The King of Hearts has a sword sticking through his head is known as the Suicide King.
At a poker table, the fishhook refers Jacks.
A railroad Bible is a slang term for a deck of cards.
“Fish” is a commonly used term for refer to an unskilled or new player.
Around the 1870,s Americans brought the Joker into the deck of cards. At that time it was used for the highest “Bower” when playing Euchre.
John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, was a man of doubtful integrity and a compulsive gambler who lived in the 1700s. He actually refuse to leave the tables to eat. The new invention was dubbed a sandwich.
In the 1800s, 2,000 to 2,500 riverboat gamblers played poker on American Waterways.
Groucho Marx got his name from carrying his poker money in a “grouch bag.”
President Richard Nixon won $6,000 playing poker in his first two months in the U.S. Navy. He used his poker winnings to finance his run for the U.S. Congress in 1946.