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Encyclopedia > Strip poker

Strip poker is a variant of the card game of poker, in which the rules require players to remove articles of clothing in response to various events. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... // For the game on The Price Is Right, see Card Game (pricing game). ... For the domestic fireplace tool, see fireplace poker. ... Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather, other features of our environment, and for safety reasons. ...

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Rules

The game can be played based on any variety of poker, with the same number of players, dealing and betting rules, and other details. It usually starts with all players wearing equal number of articles of clothing. There are a number of ways in which the rules can then be developed into strip poker, with varying similarity to poker betting found in casinos. Like many other adult party games, the rules are often flexible and other activities can be included besides playing cards.


Strip poker is played for clothes instead of for cash, although some variants start out being played for money and switch to playing for clothes when someone runs out of money. Strip poker is usually played as a variant of simpler poker variations with fewer betting rounds, like five card draw.


How much is each article worth? Another thing to decide before people start shedding clothes is what the clothes are worth. If a sock is worth one bet, is a shirt worth two? Decide before you begin what the currency of clothing equals, and if it's possible for people to buy back clothes.


How to lose A person loses when they have lost all their clothing.


When is it over? You'll know. Usually the last person wearing clothes is the winner.


Popularity

The popularity of strip poker has been greatly increased largely due to TV shows and web sites. With broadband Internet connections players often use webcams, microphones and multi-user video chat rooms to play strip poker against each other. The game appeals to people of all ages and is often played with a "truth or dare" twist added to it.


On TV and video

A game show called Strip Poker aired in 2000 in late night weeknights on the USA Network and their former chain of broadcast stations, USA Broadcasting. The program was a general knowledge quiz show, albeit one where contestants take off (some of) their clothing; though it involves cards in poker hands, the resemblance to the actual game is distant, as the contestants also had multiple layers of underwear on to extend the length of the game. Other regular strip poker-based TV shows include: Quiz show redirects here. ... USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... USA Broadcasting was an American media company owned by veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. ... Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... Underwear redirects here. ...

Strip poker productions often involve a group of all-female players. Famous strip poker productions were probably National Lampoon's Strip Poker and Strip Poker Invitational. Both productions featured a group of female players made up of Playboy or World Wrestling Entertainment models together with pin-up models competing in unscripted, no limit, Texas Hold 'em poker competition. The productions for National Lampoon were filmed in their entirety at the Hedonism II resort in Negril, Jamaica, whereas Strip Poker Invitational productions were filmed in Las Vegas. Both productions aired on Pay-Per-View in 2005. National Lampoon's Strip Poker was the first title in National Lampoon's history to feature full frontal female nudity; veteran Playboy model Taylor Kennedy won the first episode. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Räsypokka was a game show broadcast on the SubTV network in Finland from 2001 to 2003. ... Subtv is a popular Finnish TV channel. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... A montage of some of the Real Surreality Break bumpers from 2004 RTL II is a privately owned, commercial, general-interest German television channel. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... January 1973 cover of National Lampoon National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... For other uses, see Playboy (disambiguation). ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... Texas hold em involves community cards available to all players (pictured here on the left). ... Hedonism II and Hedonism III are vacation resorts in Jamaica, operated by the company Superclubs. ... Soccer at sunset on Negrils famous white sand beach Negril is a large beach resort located across parts of two Jamaican parishes, Westmoreland and Hanover. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ... Pay-per-view is the name given to a system by which television viewers can call and order events to be seen on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes later. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Full frontal nudity shows the genitals, as opposed to only showing toplessness or bare buttocks. ... Taylor Kennedy was born in Nashville, Tennesse, USA and is a glamour model. ...


Tournaments

In April 2006, as an April Fool's Day joke, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power announced his intention to stage a strip poker tournament. The level of interest generated by this announcement persuaded Paddy Power to stage such a tournament for real, the World Strip Poker Championships on August 19, 2006 in London's Café Royal. Paddy Power intended this to be the largest ever tournament of its kind and the company has been recognised by Guinness World Records as having hosted the world's largest strip poker tournament (196 players). Paddy Power's tournament in London was eventually won by Jon Young, a 32-year-old freelance writer and artist from Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest bookmaker. ... is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Guinness World Records 2008 edition. ... Slough (pronounced ) is a town and unitary authority (Borough of Slough) in England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...


Computer games

The first Strip Poker computer game was written by the German game designer Dieter Eckhardt in the late 1970s using the computers of an astronomical observatory near Düsseldorf. Strip Poker computer games were produced from the earliest stages of video game production and have continued to be released, increasingly from pornospecialist distributors.


In Literature

Strip Poker is also the name and the theme of the first novel in a new erotic thriller series by British freelance writer Lisa Lawrence, introducing her detective heroine, Teresa Knight. In the novel, a prominent black female politician is being blackmailed, in part over her joining the current fad of strip poker games among London's elite. Teresa Knight must play the games to win plus get to the bottom of a sinister conspiracy that goes beyond extortion. The novel was published by Brown Skin Books in the UK and has been reprinted by Bantam Dell in the U.S. to glowing reviews.


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