I love this poker joke:

“I once played poker with tarot cards…I got a full house, and 4 people died.”

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Back to Friday, Nov. 01, 1968

To explain why he expects the Administration’s policies to cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. “Reuben,” says the shark, “you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt you.”

Aug. 2, 1926
His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke

Before you start learning and reading poker books, I will suggest that you read those questions first and understand that poker is a card game that doesn’t differ from your daily activities.

Please read some poker rules first from PokerRoom.com:
Please answer these questions before you learn how to play poker ?

How to be an honest player who cannot lose at poker.
How to increase your advantage so greatly that you can break most games at will.
How to prevent games from breaking up.
How to extract maximum money from all opponents.
How to keep losers in the game.
How to make winners quit.
How to see unexposed cards without cheating.
How to beat dishonest players and cheaters.
How to lie and practice deceit. (Only in poker can you do that and remain a gentleman.)
How to control the rules.
How to jack up stakes.
How to produce sloppy and careless attitudes in opponents.
How to make good players disintegrate into poor players.
How to manipulate opponents through distraction and hypnosis.
How to locate or create new games for bigger and quicker profits.

More poker academic poker sources: Using probabilistic knowledge and simulation to play poker
Source Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence. I enjoy to play poker at PokerRoom.com sometimes.
Orlando, Florida, United States
Pages: 697 - 703
Year of Publication: 1999
ISBN:0-262-51106-1
Authors
Darse Billings
Lourdes Peà±a
Jonathan Schaeffer
Duane Szafron
Sponsor
AAAI : Am Assoc for Artifical Intelligence
Publisher
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Menlo Park, CA, USA