Poker History
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The history of Poker is thought to have evolved over more than ten centuries from various games, all involving the basic principals of ranked card or domino combinations and the use of ‘bluffing’ to deceive opponents...
1. January 969
A French game named “Poque” and a German game named “Pochen” became very popular in the 17 & 18th centuries, both developed from the 16th century Spanish game called “Primero” which involved three cards being dealt to each player...
1. January 1526
The birth of Poker has been convincingly dated to the first or second decade of the 19th century. It appeared in former French territory centred on New Orleans which was ceded to the infant United States by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803...
1. January 1803
The earliest contemporary reference to Poker occurs in J. Hildreth´s Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains, published in 1836; but two slightly later publications independently show it to have been well in use by 1829...
1. January 1829
Twenty-card Poker is well attested. In 1847 Jonathan Green mentions a game of 20-card Poker played on a Mississippi steamboat bound for New Orleans in February 1833, and in The Reformed Gambler (1858), a new edition of his earlier book, another...
1. January 1833
This provides evidence that the 20-card game was being challenged by the 52-card game in the mid-1830s. The gradual adoption of a 52-card pack was made partly to accommodate more players, perhaps partly to give more scope to the recently introduced...
1. January 1840
From the middle of the 19th century Poker experienced rapid changes and innovations as it became more widespread through the upheavals of the Civil War. Stud, or ‘stud-horse’ Poker, a cowboy invention said to have been introduced around Ohio,...
1. January 1864
The introduction of Poker into English society is often credited, if only on his own claim, to General Schench, the American ambassador to Britain. Blackridge quotes a letter from Schenck to General Young of Cincinnati describing a weekend retreat to...
1. June 1872
Jack Pots, pithily declaring it ‘equivalent to a lottery except that all players must buy tickets’. He added that the rule reportedly originated at Toledo and was common in the west, rarer in the east, and absent form the more conservative south...
1. April 1897
Under the aegis of the United States Printing Company and, subsequently, the New York Sun, a great deal of research was conducted into the origins and varieties of Poker with a view to drawing up a set of definitive rules, which first appeared in 1904...
1. January 1905
Following Draw and Stud, a third major structural division of the Poker game, represented today by Texas Hold ’em, is that of varieties involving one or more communal cards. The earliest of these appears in the 1926 edition under the name Spit in...
1. January 1926
After the beginning of the World Series of Poker in 1970, modern tournament play became popular in American casinos. In 1987, community card poker games were introduced to California, home of the largest poker casinos.
1. January 1969
From 1970 on wards, the game became even more popular in casinos, with the introduction of the World Series of Poker and other televised poker tournaments. Serious strategy books were published forthe game, such as Super/System by Doyle Brunson, The...
1. January 1970
By the 1980s, poker was being depicted in popular culture as a commonplace recreational activity. For example, it was featured in at least 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a weekly event of the senior staff of the fictional ship's crew..
1. January 1990
In 1998, Planet Poker dealt the first real money online poker game. In 1999, Late Night Poker debuted on British television, introducing poker for the first time to many Europeans.
1. January 1999
Poker's popularity experienced an unprecedented spike at the beginning of the 21st century, largely because of the introduction of online poker and hole-card cameras, which turned the game into a spectator sport...
1. January 2000
Beginning in 2003, major poker tournament fields grew dramatically, in part because of the growing popularity of online satellite-qualifier tournaments where the prize is an entry into a major tournament...
1. January 2006
As of 2011, the only nations in Europe that prohibit live poker are Norway and Albania, according to Dagbladet in 2011
1. January 2011
