History of Poker

Until today, everything about the emergence and history of poker is a continuous topic of debate. The most plausible points about the term derives from the French phrase "poque" which, in turn, derives from the German term "pochen" (which translates as "knocking"). The earliest origins of poker tie him to a game played in Persia, as nas.

One library noted that it was the Persian sailors who crossed the oceans who were responsible for teaching the rudiments of the game to the French military in the colonies. Well into the Renaissance played a game called "first" - very similar to poker - and France had much popularity the Blean, another kind of immediate ancestor of poker. In England, the original version was known as brag poker, a word derived from "Brel". In England it is considered that the game incorporated the concept of bluffing (translated as deception or, more commonly, bluff).

The first record of game development conscientious owed to Joseph Crowell and is located in 1829 in the city of New Orleans. Originally played with a deck of twenty cards and four players. According to Jonathan Green, in his book "Development of the miseries and the art of gambling," written in 1843, the game began to spread rapidly through all the states in the U.S. around 1830. The element of dissemination were the huge ships that plied the Mississippi River and on which the game was rife.

Between 1830 and the impending Civil War in the United States, introduced the English deck of fifty two cards and the play called "color" (having five cards of the same need not be consecutive). From there, the game of poker became a rapidly maturing variants appear as the sequence poker, poker poker discovered and discard.

Poker has been able to look hard in the English culture and the games themselves many expressions and idioms have become well known (ace in the hole, beats me, call the buff, blue chip etc.)..

Finally, the big boost it generated poker World Series of Poker, powers began to take place from the seventies of last century. Today, names like Sam Farha Omar Muhtaseb and are true heavyweights in the game.