"Poker"

manzanillo53 said:

Just a question if anyone cares to respond. I spend a lot of time in Mexico and I have heard they say poker when someone has 4 of a kind. I have never heard that and belief it is only a term used in Mexico. Does anyone know if this is a common poker term.

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There is evidence that a game called poque, a French game similar to poker, was played around the region where poker is said to have originated. The name of the game likely descended from the Irish Poca (Pron. Pokah) ('Pocket') or even the French poque, which descended from the Germanpochen ('to brag as a bluff' lit. 'to knock'). Yet it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names. It is commonly regarded as sharing ancestry with the Renaissance game of primero and the French brelan. The English game brag (earlier bragg) clearly descended from brelan and incorporated bluffing (though the concept was known in other games by that time). It is quite possible that all of these earlier games influenced the development of poker as it exists now.

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UncleConRon said:

Four of a kind are rough hands. Pretty much unstoppable. Her is the trick to look for if a certain pair in the whole has came twice and won via tips or quads recently, the probability of the same pair hitting and winning isnt good even if it hits trips or quads. Thats when you fold quads.

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