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.
Basic Strip Poker Rules In strip poker, instead of playing for cash, you play for clothes. Alternately, you can start out playing for money and when players run out of cash, they must offer up articles of clothing to remain in a hand. If they lose, the clothes get removed. You can play any variation of poker, though it's best to keep it to simple games with fewer betting rounds such as five card draw or one of the five-card draw variations.
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 last person wearing clothes is the winner.
[edit] 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.
[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. 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, 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.
[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 pornospecialist distributors.
[edit] 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.
