Random - Which President was best at poker?

[SomethingClever]

Yeah, I would think Clinton would know how to semi-bluff with the best of 'em.

He probably puts on a fake moustache and plays 1,000/2,000 in the basement of Caesar's Palace.

[GWB]

I am surprised that people always overlook Eisenhower the poker player. In the long pre-WWII years his idle hours were filled with poker, and he was a good player. He continued at a reduced rate during the war and Presidency.

He was also a honest boss. He once banned a subordinate who was a terrible player from his game. Saving the guy's military career was more important than taking his money.

Second to Nixon (a true grinder who's career owes a lot to poker), Ike was probably the best.

[GOODBEATGUY2001]

Bill Clinton was probably the best at poke-her but no one could beat Tricky Dicky at the real game. He was so tricky that he even tricked himself out of office using dirty tricks. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[jedi]

Read Gambling Theory and Other Topics by Mason.

JFK went all in with his blockade of Cuba against Kruschev's missiles.

Abraham Lincoln pushed all in with the Emancipation Proclaimation against the South's potential allies in Europe.

[cardcounter0]

That reminds me, I believe Lincoln was hacked at then General, later President, Grant because he and his officers spent more time the first part of the war playing poker rather than fighting.

[ZeeJustin]

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Bush rules. You are an idiot.

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Bush is anti gambling. He has claimed he wants to ban gambling worldwide. The moron won't even stop at imposing his religious morals as laws in the US. He wants to do it WORLDWIDE.

[Dentist]

I've read several Nixon Biographies.. the man is fascinating.

Anyway, while Truman is from my homestate and his poker abilities were allegedly solid (at what, 7 stud?)

the fact that Nixon took home an alleged $10,000 from his navy days in 1940's money means he was playing with some serious jack at the time.

Not to mention, you could consider Watergate a "bad beat" of sorts... It was an innocent political sabotage that got turned into a disaster...

Nixon was all aces after the 1972 election where he won big, unfortunately the 7 2 off that was Watergate, rivered him in the end.

[Roy Munson]

In an interview David Brinkley said that he played in many of these games. He said that Truman was a decent player but that Churchill would get his clock cleaned.

[sfer]

The Mamet essay in "Read 'Em and Weep," also in another collection of his essays, is excellent. The last sentence he writes is the finest in the book.

[Daliman]

please do illuminate us with ANYTHING bush has taken blame for then. He has no problem taking credit for things he had little to nothing to do with. Obviously, with GWB, the buck stops elsewhere.
At least only get about 7 months of him left.