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As we all must be knowing that poker is a game of cards played basically on the value of cards held by a person.Its a gambling game in short which requires both skill and knowledge to come out of it successfully.So lets get deep down into the history of pokers.

The history of poker has
been a subject of debate as we are still not sure about the exact place where poker was born.Poker has been derived either from the Irish Poca which means Pron Pokah or the French term Poque which in turn came from the German word called pochen which means to brag as bluff or to knock.
The development of poker has been influenced by many other variety of games called Renaissance game of primero and the French game called brelan.So all of them had more or less impact on the evolution of poker.

The game has roots since 19th century or earlier.the first mention is from the English actor Joseph Crowell who said that the game was played in 1829 with a deck of 20 cards with four players betting on who has the hand with highest value.There has also been a mention about the game in An exposure of the arts and Miseries of Gambling written by G.B.Zieber in
1843 where he says that the game spread from Mississippi river boats on which gambling was a common pastime.

Soon after that the game was played with a 52 card deck and it started spreading like wild fire.During the civil war in America many changes were made in the game and some forms of the game like draw poker and stud poker originated which later became very popular.And this game of Poker travelled all across to Asia due to US military.

After that in the 21st century many tournaments were held which ultimately made poker as the most popular gamblibg games ever .World series poker where the toughest competition happens was born in 1970 and after that there has been no look back.And now we have online poker which is played by people sitting virtually poles apart and competiting against
each other.