i agree with greenbastard ( look like us dollard= green )
why we should play in us...
Jonathan H. Green makes one of the earliest written references to Poker in 1834. In his writing, Green mentions rules to what he called the "cheating game," which was then being played on Mississippi riverboats. He soon realized that his was the first such reference to the game, and since it was not mentioned in the current American Hoyle, he chose to call the game Poker.
The game he described was played with 20 cards, using only the aces, kings, queens, jacks and tens. Two to four people could play, and each was dealt five cards. By the time Green wrote about it, poker had become the number one cheating game on the Mississippi boats, receiving even more action than Three-Card Monte. Most people taken by Three-Card Monte thought the 20-card poker seemed more a legitimate game, and they came back time and time again. It would certainly appear, then, that Poker was developed by the cardsharps.
The origin of the word Poker is also well debated. Most of the dictionaries and game historians say that it comes from an eighteenth-century French game, poque. However, there are other references to pochspiel, which is a German game. In pochspiel, there is an element of bluffing, where players would indicate whether they wanted to pass or open by rapping on the table and saying, "Ich Poche!" Some say it may even have derived come the Hindu word, pukka. ( omg)
Yet another possible explanation for the word poker, is that it came from a version of an underworld slang word, "poke," a term used by pickpockets. Cardsharps who used the 20-card cheating game to relieve a sucker from his poke may have used that word among themselves, adding an r to make it "poker." The thought was that if the sharps used the word "poker" in front of their victims, those wise to the underworld slang would not surmise the change.
Anyway if we play poker we better stick around dollard, cause due to the origine , and what represent the dollard in the world , the gold west, the american dream, doyle brunson, sitting bull ( ?!), jennifer tilly (???), boobs ( ah ok!) , las vegas, MIB, and the day "G" in normandie, ( not really the G point idiot)....
Euro is the biggest shiit who came in EU, i speak for the old Europe, everything is expensive since that ...just ask around you..
i am glad that country like Great britain can resist to that...or other scandic country do well without beeing in EU. ( maybe this is for another thread)
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