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 Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, Scrubbie, 12. May 2003 15:56 | ||
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| In a recent poker game, the question was asked, "Where did the name 'Bicycle" come from for the A,2,3,4,5? Which prompted the obvious second question, where did the term, "The Wheel" come from, and are they related? My players are anxiously standing by ... | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, Mike Caro, 12. May 2003 18:21 | ||
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| on 12. May 2003 15:56 Scrubbie wrote: > In a recent poker game, the question was asked, "Where did the name 'Bicycle" > come from for the A,2,3,4,5? > > Which prompted the obvious second question, where did the term, "The Wheel" > come from, and are they related? > > My players are anxiously standing by ... Hi, Scrubble -- I'm not sure, but in the Official Dictionary of Poker, Michael Wiesenberg suggests the following... BEGIN DEFINITION bicycle (n) In lowball, the best hand: in ace-to-five (the version of lowball usually played in California cardrooms), a bicycle is A-2-3-4-5 of various suits (including all the same suit); in deuce-to-seven lowball (the no-limit version of lowball often played in tournaments in Nevada casinos), a bicycle is 2-3-4-5-7 of mixed suits (they cannot be all the same suit). In high poker, a 5-high straight. Also called a wheel or a lowball. The name may have come from Bicycle cards. END DEFINITION By the way, you can see the complete poker dictionary, written and compiled by Wiesenberg and published by Mike Caro University of Poker, by clicking the "Dictionary" link below. Straight Flushes, Mike Caro | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, JasonHoldEm, 13. May 2003 00:41 | ||
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| Ok, how about this...the bicycle casnio in CA, is it affiliated with the cards in any way? (which according to my ace of spades is located in Cinci). If not, anyone know how it got its name? peace, jHE | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, stdioh, 13. May 2003 13:22 | ||
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| As it seems that nobody has come up with a definitive etymology, let me hazzard a guess. First of all, there is a Bicycle Casino and of course the playing card company and either could have an interest in furthering the name for their own advertising sakes, but that doesn't tell us how it was coined. I would suggest that A2345 was first coined as the "bicycle" as it would be used in graph theory. If you were to use a deck of cards as a graph (combinatorially speaking) where nodes on the graph are hands and edges on the graph are cards that make up these hands, then you end up with quite an interesting picture. Each straight forms an induced subgraph that is a cycle. Every card from 5 through T has a clique size of 5 and has 5 5-cycles incident with it. The Ace would be the only card that is incident to only 2 cycles, one representing broadway, and the other the wheel. Now, in graph theory, if we have two individual cycles incident to exactly one vertex, we call this a bicycle (indeed). Thus the ace is the only card in the deck that would be incident to a bicycle and I could see a mathematician giving a nickname to the A2345 straight as such. Poker has been around for a long time and mathematicians have always been drawn to the game. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Euler himself had come up with this one. Once the straight was named it could have been adopted into A-5 lowball and then even carried over into Kansas City lowball (2-7). So there's a history of why we call it the bicycle, and I'm going to let that stand until somebody can figure out where it really came from :) | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, Scrubbie, 13. May 2003 15:11 | ||
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| First let me say that I am truly humbled that "Mike Caro" himself replied to my question. (Way Cool) Secondly, let me send big-time props to "Stdioh" for the best, and most analytical, answer I have read yet. (Very Impressive) As for me, I am off to Tibet to see the Dali Lama, the O' enlightened one, in search of my answer. ... The Quest continues! Scrubbie | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, Harold Pierce, Jr., 14. May 2003 02:39 | ||
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| Don't go to Tibet to find the Dali Lama. because he is in exile and the country is under control of the Chinese Commies. | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, stdioh, 14. May 2003 07:00 | ||
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| Lousy pinkos. :) | ||
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| Re: Why Do They Call It The Bicycle, stdioh, 14. May 2003 06:59 | ||
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| GRIN. | ||
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