Here is something I usually ask during a poker game: why do we call it "poker"? you will be amazed by the number of different explenations i get, and how confident everyone is of their own theory. I checked it in wikipedia, but to me they just have one theory of their own.

It dervied from the latin work POKERUS which means. " To be sucked out on."

Originally Posted by sixsixtie

It dervied from the latin work POKERUS which means. " To be sucked out on."

I started reading that thinking it was serious!!!

Ok, I picked this Poker game and I found "The game of poker began in the middle 1800's in bars, saloons and on riverboats in the mid-west and western United States. The word "poker" was derived from the French game, "Poque" and the British game, "Brag." Coins, gold dust and gold nuggets were used as the monetary units in early poker games. Soon thereafter, chips replaced coins and gold particles, as they were easier to manage. Chips were made from ivory, bone, wood, paper and a composition made from clay and shellac"

Originally Posted by dopemope223

I read this in a scientific journal somewhere..well in the early days of the vikings they use to play a primative card game on there pillages that really has some resemblance to poker.. They had a 40card deck(made of animal skin) with half being "red" and half being "black"..5 players played. Each player got dealt 5 cards and drew from the pile once. The player with the most red cards and black cards were dealt 5 cards out again only once with no drawing possibilities and the player who had the most black cards won getting a certain number of points.. They would play 6 rounds and whoever accumulated the most number of points got to "Amor" the captured woman of the village which translated to english means "poke her" or in other term "fuck her silly" After the winner was finished they would play another 6 rounds and rape another girl.. Over time the word was shortend to "poker" and woman were replaced by money..

Barbarians! Ugh! This seriously made me sick to my stomach.

Card player magazine just did a real nice article on the origins of Poker. Pretty interesting reading if you want to know the history