The puck

[Cleocatra]

Why is the dealer button in Texas Hold-em Poker, also known as the puck?

[dannydingbat]

Popular american game, the dealer button is a big round thing, like a puck in ice hockey, another popular american game. Yanks are like that.

[maxximus]

hockey is a canadian game , poker has been around long before the americans started playing hockey, although i'm not sure when they started calling the dealer button a puck.

[dannydingbat]

Dead right Maxximus, that's why I said popular American game, ie. a game popular in America. Like, cricket, a game popular in Australia, although they didn't invent it.

[stewey]

Actually, Cleocatra, the term "puck", as used in the game that you mention is an acronym which is an admonishment, warning, or a mere suggestion that you Please Use Cards Knowingly