Texas Holdem

More and more people from different generations are enjoying the most popular card game of the history, poker. It has been very popular not only in the internet but also in the live games. However, the true history of poker is unrevealed due to different story lines from different cultures. Let us go over a short history of poker.

Historians in different locations have their own version of poker history. But most of them believed that it was first related to the German version ok poker named Pochspiel in the 15th century. It is also believed to be similar to the Persian game named As Nas.

The Persian form of game is called "Ganfija" and was introduced in the 16th century. On the other hand, the French form of this game was named "Poque" in the 18th Century. The German version is called "Pouchen" and "Primero" that was first played in the year 1526 by the Spanish. Another story came out that poker was derived from the combination of two games, "Primero" and "Brelan" which is a French game. These are all the versions of poker in the history.

The mother of all poker is considered to be the Spanish version named "Primero" which has a great similarity to the modern poker today. Brag as the other term of the poker strategy Bluffing is an act of fooling your opponent that you have a winning card despite of having a bad card. This poker strategy was related to the Spanish way of playing their game. Jonathan Green was the first person to make a poker documentary with all the strategies and was considered to be a cheating game for poker players.

As the game of poker evolved during the American Civil War, English men came up with a 52-card deck and gave birth to new poker hands named "flush". It was spread through the Mississippi riverboats where they us gambling as their hobby to kill time. In line with these riverboats, the spread of poker started from the West.

Draw, Jack Pots, and Stud came up as poker variations in 1875. It became popular and games such as 5 Card Draw, 7 Card Stud and the Texas Hold'em were added and became popular in the poker world.

Tournaments have been raised and not all poker players knew the first World Series of Poker tournament happened. It first begun in Las Vegas in 1970 and until now this event still continue to bring together all professional poker players to compete for a world title.

Texas Holdem

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