Strip poker
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Popularity
[edit] 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:
- Tutti Frutti/Colpo Grosso (Germany/Italy - 1990),
- Räsypokka (subTV - Finland - 2002),
- Strip! (RTL II - Germany - 1999),
- Everything Goes - (USA, 1981–1988).
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. [1]. 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.
[edit] Tournaments
In April 2006, Irish bookmakers Paddy Power announced their intention to stage a strip poker tournament as an April Fool's Day joke. 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.
[edit] Internet pornography
A number of pornographic websites offer strip poker games, playing against an automated opponent or with a live opponent via a webcam.
[edit] 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 specialist pornographic distributors.
