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The Game of Poker
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By BETTY SCHWARTZ, Assistant to the Editor I always felt that the game of poker was strictly a game of luck and that if you were dealt good cards you easily won. It didn’t seem to be a game of skill at all. However, I did notice that quite often there was a winner who had a very poor hand. How could that be! I decided to research this game of Poker and see what it was all about. I found out that bluffing or betting high stakes while holding poor cards to deceive opponents, was an integral part of the game. I assume that is how the expression “Poker Face” came about, because showing any expression on your face, could tip off your opponent as to whether you had a good hand or not. One of the earliest written references to poker was made by Jonathan H. Green when in writing he mentions rules to the cheating game being played on Mississippi riverboats. The Cheating Game quickly began to supplant the popular cardsharp game of 3-card monte on the gambling circuit. Gamers embraced the
new game as it was perceived as a more challenging and honest gamble than the notoriously rigged 3-card game. Green took more than a passing interest in the new game, and took it upon himself to formally name and document the Cheating Game in his book An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling - and so Poker was born. During the Wild West period of United States history, a saloon with a Poker table could be found in just about every town from coast to coast. The history of Poker is thought to have evolved over more than ten centuries from various games, all involving the basic principals of ranked card or domino combinations and the use of bluffing to deceive opponents. There are as many versions regarding the possible birthplace of Poker as there are varieties of the game itself. The most popular belief is that the Chinese invented the game around 900 A.D., possibly derived from the
Chinese dominoes. Others state that Poker originates from the Persian game as nas and still another theory mentions the French poque. French colonials imported the game to the New World when they arrived in Canada, Their beloved poque was the national card game of France and from the beginning of the 18th century, when a hardy group of French-Canadian settlers founded New Orleans, it spread from the state of Louisiana up the Mississippi River and then throughout the whole country. The origin of the word Poker is also well debated. Most of the dictionaries say that it comes from an 18th century French game poque. However, there are other references to pochspiel which is a German game. In pochspiel there is an element of bluffing, and players would indicate whether they wanted to pass or open by rapping on the table and saying, Ich Poche! So there you have it. A little history of the game of Poker.
By JANICE ZAMSKY Even the mighty can fall! Toyota’s recent world-wide safety recall of 8.5 million cars and trucks shows that nobody, no product, or industry is infallible. Instead of Toyota’s recall and bad publicity being a boon for the vehicle industry’s #2 leader, Honda Motor Company is having problems of its own: recalling more than 822,000 vehicles
for air bag defects, which could injure or kill the driver if deployed. This, makes US auto makers look good in comparison. Perhaps the Big Three will regain customer confidence and rebuild their images. This would bring a multitude of jobs back to American Big Three vehicle workers and related businesses.
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