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Poker is widely spread as one of very popular gambling played in best online casino, it is a game which joins a lot of men from around the world, which is more it is an official kind of sport, watched on TV such great number of houses in the world. Now there are very few men, that have no idea about poker or online slot but there are some who know how it originally emerged, and the most widely spread theory of where poker originated from the state of non-existence, but each and every one agree that today’s poker evolved from various card games, in all of them there is a precise pecking order of hands and “bluffing” is a useful talent, which one is recommended to have in order to mislead the other players and succeed.

A common idea suggests that the Chinese Ruler, Mu-Tsung, invented a game that was very much like poker in 970 A.D., that has been played using “domino cards”. One more theory says that the game was widely spread in Egypt already in the 12th and 13th century. It was like poker in the hand ranking, regrettably not much records of this game is in our possession today to tell historians the complete story. In the 16th century a game called “Treasure Cards” or “Ganjifa” was widely spread throughout the whole Persia, this game is also apparently one of poker’s forerunners, a more similar Persian version is “As Nas”, a game that used 25 cards and used hand positions and rounds for making bets.

“Primero” is a Spanish game evolved around 16th Century, it is thought to be the “father” of today’s poker and a remote relative of “Primo Visto” game, which is another card game. Both of them are shown in the book written by John Taylor – “Taylor’s Motto” dated 1621. Primero was played with three cards and rounds for laying bets were taking place, the basic part of the game in question was to bluff opponents by showing smaller cards. Records of this game had been found both in Italy and Spain, and while Primero was played as early as in 1526, evidence of Primo Visto appeared only in half a century, in consequence showing the possibility that these two games were actually the equivalent game.

The game Primero became popular with Germans and French in 17th and 18th centuries. French colonialists introduced the game overseas in the New World they named it “Poque” (”Pochen” in German). Poque was the national game of France by the middle of 18th century, and the French settlers who settled in New Orleans are to be “blamed” for the first arrival of this game to the North America. From this city the game went up the Mississippi River and before the end of the 18th century the game was famous throughout the State of Louisiana.

Jonathan H. Green said some words about the “Cheating Game” in 1834 and it is believed to be the first mentioning of poker in fiction. They played poker on the Mississippi river boats, and it took the place of the three-card game, that the whole Europe admired in that century, which was believed to be a “rigged” game. Green’s novel was “An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling”, the first formal novel about poker to exist, this book has a total review of the whole set of rules of the “Cheating Game”. See the full history of the game in casino review.

Soon after 1875, the game became very popular to the fallow land. During the time of the Wild West there wasn’t a saloon or a bar that had no special tables for playing poker. Poker spread all over the US year after year, and in 20th century it became an official kind of sport, recognized by all.