Poker is well-known as one of very famous creep-joints played in top online casinos, this is a game which is joining different kinds of men from all over the world, which is more it has become an official kind of sport, broadcasted to such big number of drawing-rooms all around the world. Today one can find very few men, that have not heard about poker or online slots but there are a few who know for sure where poker really comes from, plus the most widely spread theory of where poker emerged from non-existence, but they think that today’s poker evolved from different card games, in all of which there is a strict order of hands and “bluffing” is a useful skill, that a person should posses so as to trick his other players and succeed.

A common idea says that the Chinese Ruler, Mu-Tsung, made a game that was very much similar to poker in 970 A.D., records say that it was played with “domino cards”. Another theory sates that the game was widely spread in Egypt already in the 12th and 13th century. It was very much like poker in the hand ranking, unfortunately very little evidence of this game had survived to tell historians the complete story. In the 16th century a game called “Treasure Cards” or “Ganjifa” was played throughout the whole Persia, this one is also hypothetically one of poker’s forerunners, a more comparable Persian version of this game is “As Nas”, a game which required 25 cards and used hand ranking and rounds for making bets.

“Primero” is a Spanish game originally emerged in the 16th Century, they call it the “father” of our days poker and a relative of “Primo Visto”, another widely spread card game. Both of these are mentioned in the book by John Taylor “Taylor’s Motto” of 1621. Primero was played with three cards and rounds for laying bets were also used, the most important part of the game was to bluff opponents by showing plain cards. The first records of this game come from both Italy and Spain, and while Primero was played as early as in 1526, evidence of Primo Visto appeared only half a century later, as a consequence showing the possibility that the games in question were actually the equivalent game.

The game Primero became loved by both Germans and French in 17th and 18th centuries. French colonialists brought the game to the New World they named it “Poque” (”Pochen” in German). Poque won the status of a national game in France in the middle of 18th century, and the French settlers that inhabited New Orleans are to be blamed for the first arrival of this game in the North America. From here the game traveled up the Mississippi River and at the end of 18th century the game won 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 fiction. They played poker on the Mississippi river ferries, and it took the place of the three-card game, that was top-fashionable in Europe at that time, which was believed to be a “rigged” game. Green’s book was “An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling”, the first formal book about this game of all that exist, this book gives a full assessment of all the rules for the “Cheating Game”. See the full history of the game in casino review.

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