Some Amazing Facts About Poker to Blow Your Mind

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Some amazing facts about poker to blow your mind
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introduction

• Poker is one the most popular card game in the
  world now. It has been around for around 200 old
  years and there are some online poker facts which
  can still blow your mind. So lets have a look at
  it.

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Fact 1 Originated from USA

• Do you know that the birthplace of poker was
  America specifically, New Orleans. It is also
  the birthplace of Jazz music and cocktails. The
  historians said that the game of poker was
  drafted and developed in the Louisiana area.

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Fact 2 Early versions of poker

• The poker that we have come to know is played
  with a full deck of 52 cards. In the early days,
  the game could be played with a deck of twenty
  cards and four players. Back then, the game was a
  little less convoluted, the 4 players were each
  dealt five cards and the betting would begin on
  who had the best hand. According to the
  historians, the 52 deck card was first integrated
  as a game from 1834 onwards.

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Fact 3 A game lasted around eight and a half
years

• The Bird Cage Theatre in Arizona claimed to be
  the longest poker game ever ensued. The game
  began in 1881 and lasted eight years, five months
  and three days. According to them, the players
  were all well-known personalities and the minimum
  buy-in of the game was 1000.

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Fact 4 - How poker chips came to be

• During its infancy, poker was played for gold
  coins, gold nuggets and also gold dust. Due to
  this, it was hard to standardize and the need for
  a standard unit became apparent. This is when the
  gaming houses and Saloons came up with poker
  chips. Chips used to be made of ivory, clay, bone
  and wood. It used to have designs on it to depict
  its value. These coins could be exchanged for
  real cash at the gaming house just like how it
  works now in casinos.

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