Presidential Poker Games

Has it ever crossed your mind to sit back and picture the United States President sitting around the table with buddies, enjoying a good hand of poker? It may be hard to imagine but believe it or not, several Presidents in the history of the United States did just that, and some of them were quite good at the game.

According to American Thinker, George W. Bush was known to play a few hands while going to Harvard, working on getting his MBA. He was considered to be quite the skilled player.

While in the Navy, during World War II, Richard Nixon learned to play poker and it was his skill at poker that won him $8,000, which helped him start his political career, using the money to fund his first Congressional campaign.

Harry Truman, in the comfort of the presidential yacht would host games weekly. Lyndon Johnson and Winston Churchill were even known to drop in occasionally on a game Truman was hosting once in a while.

It could certainly make one sit and wonder why a game that is looked down upon by so many today could be the same game that some of our greatist leaders themselves enjoyed and played.