Online poker is one of the world most popular creep-joints played in top online casinos, it is the poker game that unifies all kinds of people from all over the world, and it is an official kind of sport, which is broadcasted to such big number of drawing-rooms all around the world. Today one can find just few men, which have not heard about poker or online slot machines but there are few who really know where poker actually comes from, plus the most widely spread theory of where poker originated from non-existence, but all people believe that today’s poker was formed from various card games, in all of which there is a precise order of hands and “bluffing” is quite a suitable dexterity, that a man is recommended to have to trick the other players and win.

A general belief says that the Chinese Ruler, Mu-Tsung, made a game similar to poker in 970 A.D., records say that it was played using “domino cards”. A different theory speaks of the game was played by the Egyptians in XII-XIII centuries. It was very much like poker in the hand ranking, unfortunately little records of this game is in our possession today to tell historians the the full story. Around 16th century a game named “Cards of Treasure” or “Ganjifa” was popular throughout the whole Persia, which is also supposed to be one of poker’s ancestors, a more similar Persian version is “As Nas”, a game that required 25 cards and used hand ranking and rounds for laying bets.

“Primero” is a Spanish poker game was born around 16th Century, it is considered to be the “father” of our day’s poker and a remote relative of “Primo Visto”, which is another card game. Both games are shown in the book by John Taylor – “Taylor’s Motto” of 1621. Primero used three cards for playing and rounds for making bets were taking place, the basic part of the game was to bluff opponents by showing minor cards. The first records of this game had been found both in Italy and Spain, and while Primero dates back to 1526, evidence of Primo Visto appeared only half a century later, so pointing at the possibility that the two games were actually the equivalent game.

The card game Primero became popular with Germans and French in 17th and 18th centuries. French colonialists exported the game overseas in the New World it was named “Poque” then (”Pochen” in German). Poque actually became a national game in France in the middle of 18th century, and the French settlers who arrived at New Orleans are to be “blamed” for the first introduction of this game in the North America. From New Orleans the game spread up the Mississippi River and at the end of 18th century the game won all around the State of Louisiana.

Jonathan H. Green mentioned the “Cheating Game” in 1834 and it is the first mentioning of poker in literature. Poker was played on the Mississippi river vessels, and it actually replaced the three-card game, that was accepted in Europe at that time, which was known to be a “rigged” game. Green’s novel was “An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling”, the first formal book about poker to exist, it contains a complete assessment of all the rules of the “Cheating Game”. See the full history of the game in casinos review.

Soon after 1875, the poker game spread like fire in the fallow land. During the period of the Wild West there wasn’t a inn or a bar that had no special tables for playing poker. Poker spread throughout all of the US decade after decade, and by the middle of 20th century it became an official sport, recognized by all.

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