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| Poker History |
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American gunfighter western movies and many other hollywood showstoppers has favored the world into believing it origins are American but the game actually goes further back.
While its exact origins are unknown, its roots go back hundreds of years. The Persians played a poker-like game called Âs Nas that is thought to be the original ancestor. Germans played a bluffing game called Pochen as early as the 16th century. Some speculate the first card where painted on leafs. Later, the French brought a poker-like game to New Orleans called Poque, where its popularity spread up the Mississippi on the paddle wheelers. It soon became known by its current name, Poker, and the option for drawing was added during the Civil War. The game then spread via wagon and train. Modifications such as stud poker, the draw, and the straight became popular, European influence of poker ended when the joker was introduced as a wild card in 1875.
Today poker is being played all over the world from all walks of life. |
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