why is a full house called a boat?

[BritNewbie]

I always figured it was 'cos they tend to turn up on the river.

Course, that begs the question - why is the river called the river??

[zeropotential]

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Course, that begs the question - why is the river called the river??

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b/c of the fish...

[aron]

I'm wondering about that myself.
Also wondering about why this question is especially related to Micro-Limit Hold'em. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

-aron

[zeropotential]

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Also wondering about why this question is especially related to Micro-Limit Hold'em.

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b/c where else could you get a picture of a boat named cameron as a response?

[Dave G.]

I'm curious about this myself. The best I could come up with was that the "boat" allowed you to sail over the "river" with everyone elses money. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Siingo]

That is a sailboat.. Have not seen a sailboat standing on land.. The YY is the keel!

[KaiShin]

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why?

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Why is three-of-a-kind plus two-pair called a full house?

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I believe the original terminology was a "full hand", which makes sense because before the introduction of the flush and the straight into standard poker hands by the Americans, the full house was the only hand where every one of your 5 cards was paired (or treyed I guess).

Somewhere along the line it because "full house".

[Mtlpsycho]

Maybe the word came out when someone had a trey at a poker table at the same time someone asked for an ASHTREY ?

[JKetzer]

Where did "deuce" come from? Latin/Italian?

[imported_legoman]

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it's trapezoidal like a boat


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