Ten Thousand Years of Poker History

Contrary to popular believe that the game of poker began in the 19th century in the United States in the roots of the game goes much further in history, and dates from the 10th century in China during the Emperor Mu-Tsung solutions. Although at the time he played with dominoes, and not the card, the principles, rules and strategies of the game is very similar to modern day poker. It is believed that the car I enjoyed playing this game dominoes with his wife and court officers. It was the beginning of poker history.

game which will be known as a poker in the future, traveling through time and continents in Egypt, India and Persia where it became known in the 12th to 13 century as "Ganjifa", which can be translated as "Treasure Cards". These cards are made of very thin pieces of rare wood or even ivory, and were only accessible to very rich. The game reached Europe in the 16th century and became very popular first in Italy and Spain are known as "Primer" and then in France called "Poque" and in Germany under the name "Pochen". It is Europe that has introduced the corresponding card from the Italian tarot cards.

When the French colonials moved to Canada in the early 18th century, they have their "Poque" with them. It then traveled south to New Orleans and spread on the first throughout Louisiana, where he played in the famous floating saloons and later than in the whole country. One of the earliest mentions of modern poker happened in J Hildreth book "Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mountains" in 1836. Game time it seemed that the 20 card deck variations played with aces, kings, queens, jacks and tens, which were divided between the players to make the best hand, there was no communal card.

Jonathan Green describes poker as "cheating game" in his book "The exposure to arts and miseries of gambling", and then later in the "Reformed Gambler" books. In 1857 Allen Dowling in his guide to New York was described 20 cards poker "one of the most dangerous traps can be found in the city." But for the time 52-card deck games began to increase their popularity and the Wild West period and especially during the civil war poker lounges can be found in every city in the United States from east to west coast.

in the mid 19th century saw the introduction of new variations of poker games such as Stud, the invention of the cowboy from Ohio and Indiana, 5 Card Draw, which began during the Civil War period, although winning poker hands were not as we do today poznajemo.1864 edition of the American Hoyle gives the following winning hand rank of "one pair, two pairs, straight sequence or rotation, triplets, flush, full house, four." She adds: "When a straight flush and come together in one hand, it outranks full", but not on all fours.

Hi-Lo poker game where the player can make a winning hand by obtaining a dry top or bottom hand started in 1903 and became popular in the thirties and forties of the 20th century.

in the early 20th century saw the birth of the Texas Hold'em poker has become a game for many years to come. Originated in Texas has remained largely unknown to local variations of poker the rest of the world until 1960. Poker legend Crandell Addington who first played in 1959, said: "They call it Texas Hold 'em at the time, they just called him to hold' em. ... I thought then that if they can catch, he will become. Draw poker game, you can only bet twice; Hold 'em, you bet four times this meant that he could play a strategic that's more than a thinking man's game "... And that's right!

It took several years for the Texas Hold'em set up their base and become a Poker game. For several years, Golden Nugget Casino is the only casino in Las Vegas the entire offer Texas Hold'em games. But those were the days before the poker tournament has started. 1970 is the first year in the World Series of Poker, WSOP, appointed Jack Benny Binion and the Horseshoe Casino. Texas Holden entered the center stage for the first time. Although the first World Series of Poker is attracting large numbers of players, only six players participated in the first series, it was a figure like Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss and Amarillo Slim in particular, who won a bracelet in the third series, which attracted the world's attention on Texas Hold'em. Since then, poker, especially Texas Hold'em has gone from strength to strength.

2003 becomes the start of a new golden age of poker when an unknown at this time armature player Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP bracelet and the $ 2,500,000 top prize. This victory has changed the world of poker forever. Not only that Chris is extremely charismatic, an ordinary man who has played poker as a hobby, he was the first champion to qualify for the WSOP through exclusive. Popularity of the online poker room to hit through the roof this year, and for many years to come. Chris showed the ordinary players in every part of the world to dream of the top poker prize was within their reach. Nobody should pay $ 10,000 buy-in more prestigious to become a champion and win millions of dollars as online poker rooms are willing to give the tickets to the players.

It seems that the popularity of online poker is going from strength to strength. This year's WSOP registration numbers are higher than the year before, despite the doom and gloom predictions of some Analytics after Black Friday. offer players a number of satellites to qualify for live poker events, generous deposit bonuses and many other online poker promotions. Who knows, maybe your turn to make history and become the next WSOP champion?