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There are many stories that do explain the origin of poker. There are many told stories concerning the origin of poker. Actually, the history of poker is thought to have started or originated or evolved over some more than ten centuries from other various games that existed. These games that existed before the evolvement of poker involved basic principles of ranked cards or domino combinations and the use of buffing to deceive the opponent. Some of the historians d claim that poker’s origin is actually related to a domino-card game and this was normally played back in the tenth century. Others have a different version of history since they argue that, it is a descendant of the Persian card game As Nas, and this actually dates back to the 16th century.

There is usually a popular believe that a game similar to poker was first invented by the Chinese sometime before 970 AD, and this was when the Emperor Mutsung played the poker with his wife. There was a French game that was called Poque and a German game known as Ponchen and they became very popular during the 17 century (Branson, 2017). These games actually involved three cards that were handled by each player. With the issue of colonialism, then the French people moved with the game to their place of settlement, North America, while the Germans moved with their own game to where they settled during the same period of colonialism. The English speaking settlers in the region the Anglicized Poque to poker and adopted features of modern game, including the five cards for each player.

After the settling of the English speaking gentlemen, Johnathan Green made one of the earliest written references to poker when in his writing he mentioned the rules of cheating. Within a short period of time, poker spread up the Mississippi River and throughout the country thanks part to its popularity among the crews of riverboats transporting goods via that great water. The cheating game then started to supplant the popular cardsharp game of 3 card monte on the gambling circuit. This new game that was started was actually embraced by those who used to play it and was perceived as more challenging and honest (Schawartz, 2017). There was no issue of cheating with the new game introduced compared to the notoriously rigged three card game. It is this time that Green took more than a passing interest in the new game, and took it upon himself to formally name and document the cheating game. In fact, he did that and exposed it in his book named ‘An exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling’ and that is how poker was born.

Since the poker was started, just over two centuries poker is believed to have never looked back. Its humble beginning was in the bans of Mississippi, it has been very popular. Its popularity has widely played game and has grown in leaps and bounds to evolve numerous variations and sub variations. The three games that have actually dominated the modern poker scene today include the five card draw, seven card stud and the Texas Hold’em (Branson, 2017). There has been some advancements with the poker game since it can even be played online. One is only supposed to log in and then be able to play with players who are online. This indicates that, poker is here to stay and instead, it is being developed with time.

Reference

Branson, L., Bin, L., & Murray, R. (2017). ONLINE POKER EVENTS AND STOCK PRICE REACTIONS OF BRICK-AND-MORTAR GAMING FIRMS IN THE US. Economics, Management & Financial Markets, 12(2).

Schwartz, D. G. (2017). HISTORICAL PARALLELS BETWEEN TOURNAMENT POKER AND ESPORTS. Gaming Law Review, 21(10), 730-744.