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Poker is widely spread as one of the most popular shinnies played in best online casinos, it is the game that joins a big number of men from all over the world, and it became an official sport, that is broadcasted to such big number of drawing-rooms all around the world. In our days there are no more than just few men, that have not heard of poker or online slot but there are a few who know for sure where poker actually comes from, together with the dominate theory of where and how poker emerged from non-existence, but they are of the same opinion that today’s poker was formed from different card games, in all of them there is a exact pecking order of hands and “bluffing” is a suitable skill, that a person should better posses to mislead one’s other players and win.

A general belief describes how the Chinese Monarch, Mu-Tsung, invented a game that was to a great extent like poker in 970 A.D., which is reported to have been played with “domino cards”. A different theory speaks of the game was widely spread in Egypt already in the 12th and 13th century. the game was like poker in the hand positions, unluckily very little records of this game is in our possession today to tell historians the complete story. Around 16th century a game that is known as “Cards of Treasure” or “Ganjifa” was played throughout the whole Persia, which is also one of poker’s forerunners, a more similar Persian variant of this game is “As Nas”, a game that was played with 25 cards and used hand positions and betting rounds.

“Primero” is a Spanish game evolved around 16th Century, it is thought to be the “father” of our day’s poker and a remote relative of “Primo Visto” game, another card game. Both of the games are mentioned in the book by John Taylor – “Taylor’s Motto” dated 1621. Primero was played with three cards and rounds for making bets were taking place, the essential part of the game was to bluff opponents by showing plain cards. Evidence of this game had been found both in Italy and Spain, and while Primero dates back to 1526, records of of Primo Visto appeared only in half a century, thus pointing at the possibility that the two games were actually the same game.

The game Primero became popular with Germans and French in 17th and 18th centuries. French colonialists brought the game overseas in the New World they called it “Poque” (”Pochen” in German). Poque was the national game of France by the middle of 18th century, and the French settlers who arrived at New Orleans are “responsible” for the first introduction of this game to the North America. From here the game went up the Mississippi River and at the end of 18th century the game was well-known all over the State of Louisiana.

Jonathan H. Green said some words about the “Cheating Game” in 1834 and it is the first mentioning of poker in literature. Poker was played on the Mississippi river boats, and it actually replaced the three-card game, which was played by many people in Europe around that time, which was known to be a “rigged” game. Green’s novel was “An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling”, the first formal book about poker of all that exist, it gives a full review of all the rules of the “Cheating Game”. See the full history of the game in online casino review.

Soon after 1875, the game became very popular to the fallow land. During the time of the Wild West there was not a single saloon or a bar without tables of poker. It spread all over the US decade after decade, and by the middle of 20th century it became an official kind of sport, recognized by all.