"Seven-Toed Pete"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Found about 50 exx. on the Net for "Three-Toed Pete."  It's new to me.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 2:11 PM -0800 1/1/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"Seven-Toed Pete" is an American and Canadian synonym for
>seven-card stud poker. Can anyone dig up any early cites or lore
>concerning this name?
>
>JL
>
Funny, I've never heard that, but there's a poker variant involving
three cards that's known as three-toed Pete. The rules are, in fact,
roughly stud-like. I've never heard of any other versions of n-toed
Pete (or n-toed anyone else, for that matter) where n=/=3.

Larry


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