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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
The Other World Series: Poker
Growing up, the American dream for many boys was playing major league baseball and hitting the game winning home run in the final game of the World Series. This dream is usually
shattered for most when in their teen years the reality hits, that they’re not an athlete and have no chance at a
career in professional baseball.
There is however another World Series that anyone can participate in. The only requirement is that you’re over 21. I’m talking about the World Series Of Poker, which takes place this year from June 2 – July 15. “Wait,” I hear you say. “That’s over a month long. I thought the World Series of Poker was just a few days.”
Actually the WSOP is a series of 45 different poker events culminating with the final 7 day main event starting July 7. The events take
place at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with the final table of the main event being played at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Downtown Las Vegas where the World Series of Poker all started.
The official start of the WSOP was in 1970, though the beginnings can be traced back to an event...
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