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Poker History - Best Poker
History
Like many gambling games that we
now play, a version of poker had a start in ancient
China. A later version was played in Egypt and Persia.
The French took a game called Primero from the Spanish
and developed a game called poque. Sailors brought all
these games to other shores via ships, which docked in
the ports of different country. The French brought it to
New Orleans by sea and by French Canadian settlers.
Evolution of poker game
The old west mentalities of real men win by honest means
lead poker to come out of the shadows into
respectability. Businessmen started to have their Friday
night games and United States Presidents became
advocates of an evening of poker among friends. Men in
the military from the Civil War on favored the game. Old
west casinos became natural places to play poker and as
the county became more settled states that did not allow
gambling allowed poker as it was considered a game of
skill.
Poker really flourished along the Mississippi River in
the 18th and 19th century, and cardsharps moved freely
among riverboats, looking for gamblers up for a game.
During this period, the real skill in poker was in
cheating, and it was very difficult if not impossible to
win a session of poker on the square.
In the early years, all the cards were put into play,
with four players playing a simple showdown game from a
20 card deck. Over the course of the 19th century, the
game involved to a full 52 card deck, with straights and
flushes added, and variations that added more
challenging elements, such as draw poker and stud poker.
According to the few historical documents written by the
writers, gamblers and a traveling comedian dated by 1830
– 1840s, the history of Poker in the United States
started in 1810 – 1820s. At that time Poker appeared in
its original and simplest form. That old American Poker
was played with a 20-card deck by 4 players each dealt 5
cards. The players bet on who had the best hand among
possible ranking hands of a pair, two pairs, threes,
full and fours. The cards played included an ace, king,
queen, jack and ten. The highest possible hand was four
aces. The unbeatable hands were four aces and four kings
with an ace. Drawing was not a part of the game. The
flush and straight were not adopted yet as the ranking
hands.
The further development in the history of Poker was in
the Civil War era when straight was added to expand the
number of winning hands. At the end of the 19th century
the history of Poker saw two evolved main strains of the
game – “draw” poker and “stud” poker. The principal
difference is that in “draw” poker all of the players’
cards are unknown to the opponents until the showdown.
In “stud” poker some of each player’s cards are revealed
to all players as the play of the hands continues. In
stud poker a player must play the cards he was initially
dealt. In draw poker a player may discard few of his
cards and draw other cards from the remainder of the
deck to improve his hand.
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