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Poker History
There seem
to be vast differences when the conversation on the
Origin of Poker comes up. Moreover, there seems to
be no clear or direct early ancestor of the game of poker.
It is more likely that Poker derived its present day form
from elements of many different casino games.
The consensus is that because of it's basic principal, its
birth is a very old one. Jonathan H. Green makes one of the
earliest written references to Poker in 1834. In his
writing, Green mentions rules to what he called the
"cheating game," which was then being played on Mississippi
riverboats.
He soon realized that his was the first such reference to
the game of poker, and since it was not mentioned in the
current American Hoyle, he chose to call the game Poker. The
poker game he described was played with 20 cards, using only
the aces, kings, queens, jacks and tens.
Two to four people could play, and each was dealt five
cards. By the time Green wrote about it, poker had become
the number one cheating game on the Mississippi boats,
receiving even more action than Three-Card Monte. Most
people taken by Three-Card Monte thought the 20-card poker
seemed more a legitimate game, and they came back time and
time again.
It would certainly appear, then, that Poker was developed by
the cardsharks. The origin of the word Poker is also well
debated. Most of the dictionaries and game historians say
that it comes from an eighteenth-century French game, poque.
However, there are other references to pochspiel, which is a
German game. In pochspiel, there is an element of bluffing,
where players would indicate whether they wanted to pass or
open by rapping on the table and saying, "Ich Poche!" Some
say it may even have derived come the Hindu word, pukka. Yet
another possible explanation for the word poker, is that it
came from a version of an underworld slang word, "poke," a
term used by pickpockets.
Cardsharks who used the 20-card cheating game to relieve a
sucker from his poke may have used that word among
themselves, adding an r to make it "poker." The thought was
that if the sharps used the word "poker" in front of their
victims, those wise to the underworld slang would not
surmise the change.
There are those who also believe that "poke" probably came
from "hocus-pocus", a term widely used by magicians. The
game of Poker later evolved to include 32 cards, and
eventually the modern day deck of 52, not counting the two
Jokers. The game of Poker has evolved through the years,
through many backroom games to the present day casinos
around the world.
Its history is rich with famous places and characters. For
example, during the Wild West period of United States
history, a saloon with a Poker table could be found in just
about every town from coast to coast. Today, Poker is
carefully regulated by gambling laws, and saloons have given
way to casinos and card rooms, but Poker is played more than
any other card game in the world.
It has grown into a sporting event, with competitions and
tournaments all around the world. Poker Tournaments take
place almost every week of the year somewhere in the world.
If you compare the prizes of major sporting events around
the world, you will find that the monetary outcome of any
given event in Poker would (pardon the pun) stack up.
Poker today is one of the fastest growing, but hardly
recognized sporting events. The pinnacle of the poker world,
The World Series of Poker, attracts poker players from all
over the world every year to compete for money and titles as
the world's top Poker players.
Poker will always be around and will continue to grow and
flourish like so many other past times. There will always be
a game to play, money to be won, and crowns to be worn. |
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