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1857 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (new ed.) 289 Should a party see fit to call the blind, [he] must put twice the number in the pool.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home ii. 19 Now you talk! You see my blind and straddle it like a man.

1882 Poker 49 The straddle is nothing more than a double blind.

1882 Poker 91 It is an error on the part of the Age to fill the Blind simply because he has already invested the Blind-money.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The next player [to the age] may double the blind, i.e., raise to double what the age staked; the next may straddle the blind, i.e. double again,..and so on. Only the age can start a blind.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Blind (in poker), the ante deposited by the age previous to the deal... To make a blind good costs double the amount of the ante, and to make a straddle good costs four times the amount of the blind.

1894 Congress. Rec. May 4408/2 Put up your blind. It's my deal.

1898 Hoyle's Games Modernized 121 [Draw Poker.] This stake [put up by the elder hand, the ‘Age’], from the fact that it is made without seeing the cards, is known as a ‘blind’.