History of Poker

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We bet you know not much about gambling history and we are going to cover some historical aspects of poker in this article. All card games are believed to have arrived from Egypt in the 14-th century. Those days the common card packs contained only 20 cards. As a result of the trade communications card playing reached Italy and Spain where the first playing cards used Latin suits: Cups, Coins, Swords and Clubs. The first English cards used the Latin suits too but at last they moved to the traditional Hearts, Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds suits which have been used at French cards starting from 1480. Toady such suits are considered to be standard and are applied in all the card packs.

The most popular game in the world

Poker is the most widespread game in the globe, although its origin is very hard to track. The name of this game may come from various sources. According to one theory it originated from the French card game known as “poque”. Nevertheless, some scientists are convinced that these days’ poker version takes its root from the German gambling game called the “pochspiel”. That game resembled somehow poker as it contained some elements of bluffing.

French travelers brought popular gambling game to the US where it was played with the 20 cards decks. Moreover, in those games the winner was also determined by the strongest combination of cards but the quantity of all cards combinations was little: four of a kind, “full”, triplets, two pair, one pair. Later this game became popular around the USA. Poker game was the symbol of Wild West.

Poker was the most played game around the planet in the 20-th century. Since then poker was the kind of sport, elite skill card game rather than the game of tricksters. It was the time when professional poker start to exist.

Tournaments

After the introduction of poker tournaments for example European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker and others there was the explosion of poker popularity. Since that time poker games were demonstrated on TV although that didn’t have a lot fans as the viewers were unable to see the player’s pocket cards. In a while after the invention of the pocket-cards camera poker broadcasting became more interesting and a bit dramatic. Since that time TV poker tournaments were the common feature of modern lifestyle.

The virtual world has contributed to poker games recognition. With the invention of the Internet and number of Internet card rooms poker game got its loyal fans among the Internet users. Nowadays chosen casino sites  are the perfect place for playing all possible poker and online roulette versions. Due to increase of popularity of online casinos the need of a problem gambling commission has arised and lots of them have appeared online.