Check out these top 15 cool poker facts that will make you smile!

• Back in the early days of American poker, players would often bet with gold nuggets, dust, and coins. To standardize things, saloons introduced poker chips.

• Did you know poker originally started with just 20 cards? The switch to 52 cards was made to allow more players to join the fun.

• The record for the longest continuous poker game? A staggering eight years, five months, and three days, set at the Birdcage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.

• Phil Laak once played poker for an insane 115 hours straight in 2010 at the Bellagio. Talk about endurance!

• In a wild twist of fate, poker player Andrei Karpov bet his wife in a game and lost her. She ended up leaving with the winner!

• At the WSOP Main Event, no one has ever clinched the title with pocket aces. Interestingly, two runners-up have seen their aces get busted in the final hand.

• Trivia time: President Warren G. Harding once lost the entire White House china collection in a poker game to General Douglas MacArthur’s wife, Louise.

• Richard Nixon, another poker-playing President, is said to have funded his presidential campaign with his poker winnings.

• The largest poker tournament ever? An online event with a whopping 253,692 players. An Austrian player conquered it after playing 470 hands.

• Just four players have achieved back-to-back WSOP Main Event titles: Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, and Johnny Chan.

• Poker legend Phil Hellmuth holds an incredible record of 16 WSOP bracelets!

• Antonio Esfandiari holds the record for the biggest single tournament payout in poker history – a cool $18.35 million from his 2012 win at The Big One for One Drop.

• The term "Dead Man's Hand" comes from Wild Bill Hickok, who was holding two pairs – aces and eights – when he was shot and killed.

• Did you know that a flush beats a straight? It's a common mix-up among new players.

• Finally, in 2011, a poker AI named 'Cepheus' claimed to be unbeatable in heads-up Limit Texas Hold'em. A real sign of how the game and technology continue to evolve!

So, there you have it, fellow poker lovers – a blend of history, trivia, and quirky facts from our favorite game. Keep these in your back pocket for your next poker night!