Poker Antedatings

[Shapiro, Fred]

Very nice antedatings of "draw poker" and "jack pot," Bill!  Someone else I know has antedated the term "poker" itself, but that willl be appearing in a forthcoming book and I think he would not want it posted at this time.

Fred



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 OED has 1864
Fred Shapiro went to 1857 here:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0401B&L=ADS-L&P=R379&I
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"A GAME OF DRAW POKER." by The Lawyer, _Spirit of the Times; A Chronicle
of the Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage_  New
York: Feb 6, 1847. Vol. 16, Iss. 50; p. 589 col 3.
"I have seen various accounts in your interesting paper, of a game that
is "extensively" played in these diggins, called by the euphonious name
of "Poker," but have seen no mention made of a game that has almost
superseded the old one, which is known by the name of "Draw Poker." "
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