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Did you know that...
...Playing cards were invented in Asia around 900 A.D.
...Poker initially was played with one round of betting.
...There are 2,598,960 possible poker hands with 52 cards.
...Nearly 80 million Americans are playing poker.
...A fifth suit was added to poker in 1937 but never caught on
because people had to buy all new decks.
...On average 70 million decks of cards are sold in the united states
each year.
...Poker is now the third-most-watched televised sport on cable TV,
trailing only auto racing and football.
...The four suits - hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs - originated in
France in 1480. Spades represent nobility, diamonds represent
merchants, clubs represent peasants and hearts the clergy.
...Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the Great;
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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