Why do They Call it a Poker Pipe?

[chispa]

It is a sitter and you can smoke it while playing poker?
The stem looks like its just poked in there?
You can hold it comfortably and poke someone?

 

[crpntr1]

You can sit it down while you poker?

 

[sebastian]

It appears that your first guess is correct...
http://pipedia.org/wiki/Poker

 

[rlunderhill]

I agree with Chris on this one. :laughat:

 

[smokedragon]

Nice Chris. Made me chuckle. :lol:

 

[ssjones]

I own two, but didn't know the origin of the name.

 

[papipeguy]

Makes sense I suppose. Although I don't play the game I do enjoy my L'Anatra poker pipe.

 

[foggymountain]

Thanks Sebastian for the scholarship. I used to have a cherrywood pipe that was shaped like the cherrywood poker, but was considerably larger. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. That is clearly where the name came from. They had the bark on them, and the bowl and shank were 2 different pieces. You had to smoke it slowly so it didn't burn out. The taste of the smoke was mediocre.