People’s proclivity for gambling has pushed them to bet all sorts of bizarre things. But what better game to bet things at other than poker? In the game’s century-old tradition, players have bet a lot of strange and even weird stuff. From expensive jewelry to a car, to even one’s soul mate! Crazy as these […]
Poker you may think came out of the dusty, smoky parlors of Nevada long before Las Vegas formed as the center of the game’s universe. While the evidence of poker’s actual origins is scant, there are persisting motifs that have allowed us find out a little more about the actual origins of the game. Some […]
Without a speck of doubt, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, or C.M. Coolidge for short, best known work remains Dogs Playing Poker. Yet, there are many unknowns or rather – curious facts surrounding the series of paintings that have etched themselves in our collective memory. For starters, perhaps very few people know that the popular name refers […]
