Retirement brings about new opportunities, but you normally would have been too busy at work or bringing up your family to be able to enjoy playing Poker maybe one of those things. If you live in one of the park homes available from park home life you may have started to develop new friendships with other people who are also close to or in retirement. Playing poker is a good way of making new friends and building strong relationships.
It is thought that poker is a card game that has been around for over 200 years and is not a game of luck there is an element of skill involved in the game and once you master this you will enjoy playing with friends and family for years and years.
Poker evolved out of the original game of dominoes back in 969AD it is thought that it was a game played by Emperor Mu-Tsung and his wife. Other early forms of the game saw cards being used with gold Nuggets or coins as these gold Nuggets and coins were not uniform in their weight so it was difficult to use them for betting. As the game was played in saloons It soon became apparent that a standardised form of betting was needed, and the poker chip was developed. In the first instance these were made from ivory and other bones as well as clay and wood before we moved to the more modern plastic chips that we see today.