Poker is on track to become one of the most popular card games worldwide. Some have always been intrigued by what are the origins of poker. What is clear after some searches is that you can not specify which was the source of his birth, rather the poker was born in various places and then worked their development.

Apparently the beginning of poker is attributed to either the Chinese, like dominoes variant thereof, as well as in the thirteenth century and the Egyptians or India.


The only clear thing in all this is that nobody really knows the origin of the game, but if you know a country that has as its main poker game. Mention the United States, a country that has become the flagship game of cards.

The poker we know today if you know that had its origins in the Mississippi and spread widely by steamboats of the time Through the Mississippi River and the Ohio River. Total expansion coincided with the U.S. Civil War (1850), as soldiers used it as a hobby.

The revolution of poker on TV was given in 2003, when the World Poker Tour Of had the bright idea of ??installing a camera the size of a lipstick just below each player. This made the whole audience could see the cards of the players.

Already now complete tournaments are broadcast on television, always indifferent to the player has no advantage for any blow.

Draw Poker now has almost disappeared from most poker rooms and much better known if the Texas Hold'Em that became the worldwide reference, shortly after its discovery in the early twentieth century.

These are some of the variants of which we are going to talk further, that some are better known than others, but we want to help can learn to play any poker variant.