Here are some poker facts, some funny and some not so funny!
The number of possible poker hands available with 52 cards is 2,598,960.
The USA sells around 70 million packs of cards every year.
When Columbus docked in America in 1492 his fellowmen found leaves from trees, drew pictures on them and had games of cards.
The sport of poker is the third most watched on cable TV, slightly behind racing and football.
A fifth card suit was added to poker in 1937. However this never caught on as people didn’t want to have to buy new sets of cards.
The four kings in each set resembles a famous king from history – Spades – King David, Hearts is Charlemagne, Clubs is Alexander the Great and Diamonds is Julius Caesar.
A famous phrase used in poker is the ‘dead man’s hand’. This is when a player has an Ace and an Eight. This phrase has being created after Wild Bill Hickok was playing poker and was shot; he was holding the ace and the eight at the time.
