Poker Advice For Fools

This is a horrible song, but once you listen to it, you won’t get it out of your head.

Yes, the games only been around since being played in Robstown, Texas in the early 1900s. Merria-Websters dictionary has finally decided to add it to his list. Here is the listing:

23. Texas Hold ’em n (1995) : poker in which each player is dealt two cards facedown and all players share five cards dealt faceup

There is a space between the “d” and the ” ’ “. This is because Hold and ‘em are two words. The fact that they use 1995 as the first known use of the word in print is very bizzare. What year did Doyle’s Supersystem come out?

This listing above was from the Webster press release but when checking on their website they have 1975 listed. Must have been a typo.