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The History of Boxer Dogs Playing Poker
Cassius Marcellus Clay, the wry commercial artist who gave the world dogs playing poker, was born in upstate New York in 1844. He was named after the abolitionist Quaker,Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, one of the most eloquent anti-slavery politicians of the antebellum South, Kentucky Sen.
Cash, as his friends and family would call him, had never received any formal art training. Though, by the time he was 20, he was a draftsman and frequently had his sketches featured in the local newspaper. A short time later, he had one of his drawings published in Harpers Weekly and subsequently came to be the inventor of "comic foregrounds", where tourists place their head through a hole in a painting, appearing to have a comical muscular body for photographs. Coolidge caught the attention of the Brown & Bigelow Company in 1903. The commisioned him to create a series of comical paintings for their advertisin calendars. Dogs being one of his favorite subjects, Coolidge decided to create paintings of Mastiffs, Collies, Boxers, Great Danes, etc. participating in human activities. Dogs would smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and, most famously, sit around the table for a game of five-card draw. To a dog,...Read more
Poker Scalping
I'm not sure if Poker Scalping is a recognised term for what I'm about to explain, but for me it sums up a strategy used by a lot of professional gamblers.
That strategy in a nutshell is that of preying on new and vulnerable poker players in order to win consistent hourly wages from playing poker.
Every day thousands of bad poker plays go online at the nets largest poker site and play badly and lose their money. That money is won not just by good poker players but also by poker players who play systematically. That is they play tight they know their odds and they play business like.
These professional players are winning and winning big with some making regular six figure salaries year in and year out.
There is an unlimited supply of bad players to win from and more are added daily. All you have to do is to have a strategy and some tools.
Now maybe "preying on new players" is strong language, but what you have to keep in mind is that these players will lose to somebody and that while they are losing they are getting an education. And to be honest if...
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Subscribe It is one thing to be playing cards in your neighbor's or friend's den but quite another to be involved in the World Series of Poker.
Tom Moore started the World Series of Poker in 1968 in Reno, Nevada.
Perhaps it is the money that is the key focus of the WSOP.
If you want to compete in the World Series of Poker, then you are going to have to hone your game skills.
He wanted to show other casinos and players that poker was a worthwhile venture. Up until this time, many casinos did not feature poker because they believed that it was too hard to control cheating. Perhaps it was but Benny Binion and his sons changed all that and helped catapult WSOP into the stratosphere of the elite gamers, with such games as Texas Hold Em and Five Card Stud.
Practice, practice and more practi (read more)
The Main Attraction of the World Series of Poker
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