Some interesting facts about Cards and related Games

These are some facts about cards and related games like poker, 21, bluff etc.

• English actor Joseph Crowell is the one who wrote down the details about the details of poker first in the history. It was 1829.
• Playing cards are thought to be invented in China.
• The first even ban on cards were in 1367, Bern, Switzerland.
• According to one US Playing Card Company, the King of Hearts represents Charlemagne, the King of Diamonds represents Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs represents Alexander the Great, and the King of Spades represent the Biblical King David.
• The King off Hearts originally had a moustache. It was lost due to poor copying of original design.
• The inventor of periodic table “Dmitri Mendeleev”, was inspired from Solitaire Table.
• The largest and one of the oldest playing card company is from US, Ohio. The company is USPC and was founded in 1867. It creates more than 100,000,000 decks of playing cards per year.
• From 9th century people from China started playing Cards.
• The King of Hearts is also known as the Suicide King.
• Before the indictments happened in 2006, around 10 to 15 million Americans were playing online poker every day.