Texas Hold 'Em;

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:10:49 -0500, Mullins, Bill
<Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

>Texas Hold 'Em and Hold 'Em are not in the OED.  (Hold 'Em shows up in
>1985 in the entry for Omaha, a poker variant).
>
>Hold em
>
>"World Series of Poker Underway" (AP) Pennsylvania | Indiana | Indiana
>Evening Gazette | 1972-05-18 p. 22 col 6.
>"The game is called "Hold-em," a variation of seven card stud."
>
>[The first Dallas Morning News cite is the same wire service article,
>run on May 19]

DMN beats that, but not in a Texan context...

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1971 _Dallas Morning News_ 23 Aug. A19/2 In the 1971 tournament [sc. the
World Series of Poker at Benny Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas] Mr.
Moss won in both the "hold 'em" and "5-card low ball" divisions but for
some reason no overall championship was awarded this time.
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Could be some confusion on the part of the writer here, since as the "hold
'em" champ Moss would also have been the overall champ...

http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0505/news/world_series.html


--Ben Zimmer