Today I am going to branch off in a new direction for my history of poker articles. I’d like to focus a little on the history of video poker and video poker machines. We see video poker everywhere, from the largest casinos to the dirty truck stop on the side of the interstate. Video poker [...]

Continuing on with my History of Poker articles I will tell you a little about three card poker today. Three card poker has evolved in the poker world like most variations of poker. It has its roots in the games of Brag and Poque and most other simple early variations of the game I’ve talked [...]

Today I am continuing on with my poker history articles that focus on a specific variation of poker.  Today the topic of choice is a brief overview and history of H.O.R.S.E. poker.  H.O.R.S.E. is a mix of five different styles of poker.  It encompasses Texas Hold’em, Omaha Eight or Better, Razz, Stud and Stud Eight [...]

Poker players today might take the poker chip for granted when sitting down at a table to give it their best in a couple hands. Chips offer a simplistic and fair way to make bets and allows players to calculate how much money a player has available to them on the table. These simple things [...]

Moving on with the history lessons I have been giving we will talk about the history of another well known variant of poker called five-card draw. As I said a couple articles back, Texas Hold’em is currently the most popular variant of poker. This is a recent development and five-card draw held that title for [...]

This week I am continuing to write about the history of the most popular styles of poker that we see both in casinos and online today. Omaha is certainly one of the top contenders for this spot, right behind Texas Hold’em which I happened to cover last Sunday. One might think that Omaha originated in [...]

A few Sundays ago I wrote an article outlining the history of the game of poker. This week I would like to start delving more specifically into the history of individual games starting off with a well known variety of poker called Texas Hold’em. Texas Hold’em is likely the most popular type of poker played [...]

Televised poker isn’t anything new to somebody who is just getting into the poker game. With the rampant online poker playing of a young demographic, watching poker on TV to see the big names isn’t anything new or special. It might look as though watching poker on TV has been a commodity offered for years [...]

Many of us play poker every day of our lives. We live for the game and spend a good amount of time playing it. For something that takes up a huge part of the day, how many of us have thought about where poker itself came from? What happened to create such an excellent game [...]