Poker History

PokerPoker - 10 rules to observe when playing poker online. Read more ... » – According to the studies of Joseph Crowell, who is an English actor, the history of poker dates way back to 1829 in Louisiana. This game was played by 4 players with 20 decks of cards. According to the book that is called “An Exposure of Arts and Miseries of Gambling” by Jonathan H. Green, the game then started to spread from New Orleans in Louisiana to the other states of the United States. The game travelled across the boats of the Mississippi as these boats had a reputation for having a lot of gambling activities.

 The game that we know now was not the same game back then as the game evolved and it went through a lot of phases, specifically in the Civil War in the United States. All of these phases and circumstances resulted in the creation of more than one poker version including Stud Poker and Straight Poker. Other versions started to be developed with the introduction of new concepts such as the wild card, community card, lowball and split pot poker.

The popularity of poker started to increase rapidly in 1970 as this is when the first ever World Series of Poker took place, it was the first poker competition to take place on a wide scale. The players who won in these early tournaments included some of the biggest names in the poker world such as Bobby Baldwin, Puggy Pearson, Amarillo Slim and Doyle Brunson. Doyle Branson is the author of the first book that talked about poker strategyPoker Strategy. Read more ... », it was called Super / System.

Mainstream media capitalized on the popularity of poker in 1980. In the media, poker was portrayed and viewed as a recreational activity. It made an appearance in over 10 episodes of the hit sci-fi TV show, Star Trek. It was viewed as a weekly gaming activity that the senior staff of the fictional space ship used to enjoy.

Poker rose to new heights in the 1990s as that is when gambling started to spread in the United States, poker was highly popular in Atlantic City in the state of New Jersey, which has become one of the gambling empires in the United States besides Las Vegas.

Lastly, the popularity of poker spiked in the 1st years of the twenty-first century; which was a direct result of hole-card cameras and the advent online pokerPoker - Advantages Of Playing Online. Read more ... ». Online poker helped the spread of the game as it started to be enjoyed by anyone who has a computer without being obligated to leave his home in order to enjoy poker. As for the hole-card cameras, they single handedly turned poker from a card game into a spectator sport that players can watch and enjoy. Besides the WSOP, there are other poker tours that started to capitalize on poker such as the WPT (World Poker Tour) and the European Poker Tour. As for the first poker governing body, it was founded in the European country of Switzerland in 2009. It is called the International Federation of Poker and it held the Nations Cup in 2001.