History of Poker
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As
popular as poker has become as an international 'sport', it is
interesting to note that the history of how this wonderful game
began is not exactly known! The word 'poker' has both French
and German origins in the words, 'poque' and 'pochen',
respectively.
Poker
is sometimes said to have descended from the Persian game called
'nas', but in other circles it is claimed that the game of poker is
a direct descendant of the English game 'brag'. Poker, it
seems, may be a melding or combination of many different ancient
games, although it is impossible to claim any one of these games as
poker's sole ancestor.
Poker,
in one of its earlier variations, is said to have been played in
this country in New Orleans in the early 1800s, but even at this
time poker did not appear in the form we know today (played with a
52 card deck and with the same set of poker
hand rankings we use today).
By
about the mid-1800s, the full 52 card deck that we are familiar with
today was introduced and soon thereafter different variations of
poker began to emerge. These variations included draw poker
and stud-poker.
Certain
split-pot games came about around the year 1900, but there is still
some dispute as to whether these games resembled the typical
split-pot games we are familiar with today, such as Stud Eight or
Better and Omaha Hi-Lo.
Tournament
poker was introduced around 1970 with the advent of the World Series
of Poker and has become extremely popular in recent years due to
expanding television coverage, multi-million dollar tournament
purses and online poker
tournaments that allow the average, or non-professional, poker
player to win his or her entry to multi-million dollar poker
tournaments, online.
The
history of poker is as fascinating, diverse and inexact as the game
itself! Just as we may not play the same hand the same way
twice, or derive an exact, winning poker strategy using mathematics,
the history of our favorite game is also somewhat shrouded in
mystery.
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