What is copper a bet?

If you coppered your bet, you were betting that the opposite of what you were betting would happen. Got that? For instance, if you coppered a bet on 10 you were really betting that 10 would be a losing card. You indicated your intention by putting down a copper penny or copper marker provided just for that purpose.

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Today's question:

I was watching a Western movie on TV the other day, and they used the phrase, "He is coppering his bet," a couple of times. What does that phrase refer to?

"Coppering your bet" is one of many phrases that come from faro, which in the 19th century was just about the most popular gambling game around. You could walk into almost any saloon in the West, and in many other parts of the country, too, and find a faro game under way. On the surface, faro was a seemingly simple game. The dealer spread a cloth with spaces marked for the 13 cards of a suit, usually spades. You placed your bets on the cards on the cloth and waited to see what cards came off the deck or out of a spring-loaded dealer's box, sometimes called "the coffin." The trick was there were something like 130 ways to bet. You could bet on a single card or on a bewildering array of splits, combinations or other mixtures too complicated to go into here. (That means I don't understand them.)

Anyway, one thing a player could do was "copper" his bet.

If you coppered your bet, you were betting that the opposite of what you were betting would happen. Got that?

For instance, if you coppered a bet on 10 you were really betting that 10 would be a losing card. You indicated your intention by putting down a copper penny or copper marker provided just for that purpose. Carried over to real life, "coppering your bet" may mean you are picking the other side to win or betting against a choice you might otherwise be expected to make.

As public gambling faded and casinos took over, faro declined.

The problem was that the odds were fairly even and, under certain situations, favored the player against the house. That's not the way the casinos like to do business, and the last casino faro table closed in the 1980s.

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Why are pocket 2s called ducks?

It's common in Hold'em to give certain types of starting hands nicknames. One nickname for pocket Deuces is “ducks” because Deuces are considered to look like ducks.

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Explanation of Ducks

It’s common in Hold’em to give certain types of starting hands nicknames. One nickname for pocket Deuces is “ducks” because Deuces are considered to look like ducks.

Other names for 22 -

Desmond

Quack Quack

Swans/swarovskis

Richard Nixon

Example of Ducks used in a sentence -> We managed to flop bottom set with our ducks.

How to Use Ducks as Part of Your Poker Strategy

There are practically endless nicknames for all of the different starting hands in Hold’em. Knowing them is presumably not super important, but sometimes not knowing common nicknames such as “ducks” could result in us feeling left out of a poker conversation we are not following.