Did you know that based on the statistics, poker party history, facts, and trivia, poker should be named a national sport? Forty to fifty million Americans regularly play poker. That is more than one in five Americans playing this fascinating, often addictive game! Among well known poker players, one of the most well-known and notorious American presidents, President Richard Nixon, won $6000 during his first two months in the U.S. Navy during World War II, playing poker. The money he won was used to fund his first campaign for congress, a campaign he won!