Poker is well-known as one of very popular gambling played in top online casino, it is the game that is joining a lot of people from all over the world, moreover it is an official sport, that is shown on TV in thousands of drawing-rooms in the world. In our day there are only few people, who have not heard about poker or online slot machine but there are some who really know where poker really comes from, together with the most widely spread theory of where and how poker originated from the state of non-existence, however all people are of the same opinion that today’s poker evolved from several different card games, in each of them there is a precise pecking order of hands and “bluffing” is quite a suitable dexterity, that a man should better posses in order to trick one’s other players and win.

A common belief states that the Chinese Monarch, Mu-Tsung, invented a game that was to a great extent similar to poker in 970 A.D., as reported, it has been played with “domino cards”. A different theory sates that the game was widely spread in Egypt already in XII-XIII centuries. It was similar to poker in the hand placing, unfortunately very little records of this game had survived to let historians know the the full story. In the 16th century a game called Cards of Treasure or “Ganjifa” was widely spread throughout the whole Persia, it is also apparently one of poker’s ancestors, a more comparable Persian variant is “As Nas”, a game which required 25 cards and used hand positions and rounds for laying bets.

“Primero” is a Spanish game evolved in the 16th Century, it is regarded as the “father” of our days poker and a remote relative of “Primo Visto” game, which is another card game. Both games are shown in the book written by John Taylor “Taylor’s Motto” dated 1621. Primero used three cards for playing and rounds for making bets were taking place, the essential part of the game was to trick opponents by showing smaller cards. Evidence of this game come from both Italy and Spain, and while Primero dates back to 1526, records of of Primo Visto appeared only half a century later, as a consequence showing the possibility that the two games were in fact the the matching game.

The game Primero became popular both in Germany and France in 17th and 18th centuries. French colonialists introduced the game to the new-found America they called it “Poque” (”Pochen” in German). Poque won the status of a national game in France by the middle of 18th century, and the French settlers who came to New Orleans are to be blamed for the first arrival of this game to the North America. From there the game went up the Mississippi River and at the end of 18th century the game was popular all around the State of Louisiana.

Jonathan H. Green mentioned the “Cheating Game” in 1834 and it is considered to be the first mentioning of poker in literature. The game was played on the Mississippi river ferries, and it actually replaced the three-card game, that was widely spread in Europe around that time, which was thought to be a “rigged” game. Green’s novel was “An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling”, the first formal book about gambling of all that exist, this novel offers a total analysis of 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 in the fallow land. During the period of the Wild West there was not a single inn or a bar without tables of poker. The game spread throughout all of the US decade after decade, and in 20th century the game became an official sport, recognized by all.