FunFacts About Poker

......it isn't sooo serious, lol.

2,598,960 is the number of possible poker hands with 52 cards.

On average 70 million decks of cards are sold in the united states each year.

In 1492, when Columbus landed in North America, his men took wild leaves from trees, drew pictures on them and played cards.

Poker is the third-most-watched televised sport on cable TV, trailing behind auto racing and football.

In 1937 there was a fifth suit added to poker but never stuck because people had to buy all new decks.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history (Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar).

Former President Richard Nixon won $6,000 playing poker in his first two months in the U.S. Navy during WWll. That is roughly equal to $42,640 in 2004 dollars. He used that money as well as more poker winnings to finance his run for the U.S. Congress in 1946, which he won.

Aces and Eights are referred to as "dead man's hand" because Wild Bill Hickok was a big poker player, who was shot in the back whilst playing poker. His hand was Eights and Aces.