Chinese Poker ChipsUp the ante at your next social poker event CHINESE CHIPS: Over three hundred years ago in the Orient fabulous gaming chips were made from mother of pearl and other exotic materials and were brought back to the well-heeled London aristocracy by English traders. The wealthy establishment had already embraced cards as a great way of demonstrating their financial one-up-manship to one another and were invariably great risk takers. Amazingly, these valuable antique chips are available to hire for that special poker evening from OldTimeGaming.com and it’s hard to imagine a better way to impress your gambling friends. The fish was the great symbol of good fortune in Chinese culture so some of the chips are shaped after that image, giving rise to the potential of inviting friends round for a “fish and chips” evening they’re unlikely to ever forget. Might be an idea to vet your pals carefully. Anyone with a record for being light- fingered might be best left off the guest list. It wasn’t uncommon for shots to be fired in the seventeenth century drawing rooms if cheating of any kind was ever suspected. No Chinese chips, only digital poker FREQUENTLY ASKED POKER QUESTIONSQ: What happens in a game of Texas Hold’em if both players in a showdown have two equal pairs? A: Texas Hold’em requires the strongest five card hand to win the pot. If both players have the same pairs the “kicker” card (the fifth card in this case) decides the victor. Let’s say both players have a pair of aces made up of a shared ace on the board and each of them holding an ace, along with a pair of fives which are on the board and which both players are also utilising. If player A’s fifth card is a 9 and player’s B’s fifth card is a 7. Player A wins. The fifth card in each case is both player’s second hole card, the other being an ace. Q: I notice on TV they show what is supposed to be the whole $7,500,000 piled high on a table at the World Series of Poker. This year’s winner Joseph Hachem was photographed actually holding bundles of the stuff. Is it real? A: We’ve been there. It’s real and so are the loaded pump-action shotguns the security guards are holding who “mind it” every minute it’s on show. If you think some poker players are psychos you should see the look on the faces of these guards. Even the Terminator wouldn’t call their bluff. Q: What does "a mixed marriage" mean in Texas Hold’em? A: That’s when your hole cards are a king and queen of different suits Q: What does "a Siegfried and Roy" mean? A: Er….that would be…two queens! ALL THE ACES daily poker column: Wednesday, September 21, 2005:
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