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The origins of playing cards and poker are difficult to pin down. There are
dozens of theories. Some say playing cards were developed by the Chinese as a
variation on dominoes. In Europe, Tarot decks used for fortune telling are an
obvious link in the lineage of the playing card. Gaming has been popular in
every culture throughout history, so it is likely that different versions of the
playing-card deck were developed independently by different cultures at
different times.
Early French settlers who came to New Orleans played a card game called
poque, which involved bluffing and betting. Persian sailors, at port in New
Orleans, taught the French settlers the Persian game called âs, which uses decks
of cards comprised of five suits. Most likely, these two games came to be melded
together into one, and as travelers spread the game up the Mississippi River,
they changed it to suit their own purposes. Con men who plied the riverboats
adapted the game, using it to relieve their victims of their "poke," or cash. At
some point, this Anglicized version of the word poque became "poker." The first
written mention of "poker" was in 1834.
In the 1800s, the game quickly spread to the western frontier. The "wild
west" period of American history was a boom time for poker, with a poker table
in almost every saloon.
Legendary Las Vegas casino owner Benny Binion decided to host a poker
tournament for the best players in the world. In 1970, he held the first ever
World Series of Poker. This $10,000 buy-in, no-limit Texas Hold'em game is now
televised on ESPN. | 
发表于 2016-7-9 23:54:03