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Originally Posted by zikzak
Is there any compelling etymology that tilt comes from pinball? Poker tilt is playing like **** and losing all your money. When you tilt a pinball machine the game just stops.
It's mentioned in several books about poker and poker history. Then again, poker books, or accepted poker history, sometimes plays fast and loose with actual history (I'm looking at you Nick the Greek vs. Johnny Moss six month poker game that didn't actually happen.)
Aside, I've read that AK was called "walking back to Houston" because the old rounders played it so well they sent their opponents home broke without cab or bus fare, but I've also read it was called that because people would overplay it and find themselves walking back to Houston. They can't both be correct, can they?
Last edited by Oroku$aki; 07-09-2018 at 10:21 PM.