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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
#1 Poker Tip - A Must Read for New Poker Players!
If you just started playing online poker or your just new to the game you may believe this is a game of luck or chance. If this is the case you are sadly mistaken. Poker is a game of strategy, skill and the most important ODDS.
If you want to become a profitable poker player you must know all the different odds involved in a typical hand such as pot odds, win odds, chance on hitting on the flop/turn/river, etc.
This takes a lot of precise mathematics and you need to know how to do it quick. Fortunately at the end of the article I'm going to let you in on a little secret that will calculate all these odds instantly.
What are poker odds exactly and what can I use them for, you may ask. In short, poker odds are used to determine the value of the hand you are currently playing. Also, it can be described as a win-loss ratio for a player. These odds are commonly presented as a ratio or a percentage.
Knowing your odd can effect every action you make such as a check, fold, or a raise/re-raise, ect. For...
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