Based on the book Foster’s Complete Hoyle, RF Foster wrote “Poker games are played for the first time in the United States, five cards for each player from one card package containing 20 cards”. But there are some historians who disagree like David Parlett who said that judi poker is similar to the Persian card game brought by As-Nas. Some historians say the name of the game was taken from Poca Irlandi namely Pron Pokah or Pocket, but it is still gray because it is not known with certainty who called this game poker.
While there are gambling elements throughout this variety of games, specialists are more clear about how poker can become a popular betting game in the United States. It happened along with the emergence of gambling in the Mississippi river region and surrounding areas in the 1700s and 1800s. At that time it might really be seen the similarity between ancient poker and modern poker not only in betting methods but also in local culture. Maybe this is the forerunner to the emergence of the modern poker game that we know today.
At gambling houses, salons to boats that provide gambling platforms in places around Mississippi, they occasionally play only applying a deck of 20 cards (like an as-nas game). This game is played once in a while and then without drawing, then wins, has a betting round, can increase the betting score like an as-nas game.
Here is also the area of poker evolution from 20 cards to 52 cards, and the emergence of types of poker games such as hold ‘em, omaha to stud. Amazingly the effort that stud poker is the first and classic poker that has been played for more than 200 years.
In the late 1800s, poker games began to be added to new regulations such as straight and flush and some other variants such as low-ball poker, wild cards, social group cards from one variety and another.
The History of Poker Culture
At first poker was only a culture to strengthen friendship / brotherhood through the game. Because there is no betting factor in this game, because it’s not against the dealer. However, when poker starts before the betting house or what we know as a casino, poker has become one of the cash machines for casinos or game champions.
Habit has a big effect in the world of poker which produces this game not just as a game, but as a source of money making by applying deception and intelligence.
For those who have the ability to apply their tricks and intelligence, they can quickly become rich just by playing poker. When compared with the income of gold miners, income from poker is far more tantalizing, so that makes many people try and consequently mushroom everywhere and now.
Who made Texas Holdem Poker?
Yes, you will not believe this, but it is true that this is from Texas. A small town outside of Corpus Christi named Robstown is where this game was discovered.
This poker game spread fast in parts of Texas before it was delivered in Las Vegas in 1967 played by a group of gamblers in Texas. This gambling classification is quite familiar with gambling techniques in the game they play is very elegant, they are Crandell Addington, Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim. Two of them are not Texans, they just go there to play a game known as hold’em not poker. This game is popping up all over Texas. Over time, hold’em has become a popular game because they bring their hold’em skills to the center of national attention when hold’em consequently arrives in Las Vegas, and that brings them fame and fortune.
The hold’em development is consequently enhanced by adding some regulations because in the game you can run 4x bets in one game round. Even though in draw poker, you can only make 2x bets, this is the profit from hold’em poker because the heat does not end tight with bets that always go up.
But it really isn’t the three of them who contributed to bringing holdem to Las Vegas and then the world ahead of your cell phone. Only two are credited with important events in the history of Texas Holdem, Crandell Addington, and Benny Binion.
Crandell Addington is a Texas player and along with his playing companion Brunson and his friends see a very good opportunity in the detention business and Adderley.
Adderley consequently started bringing this game to the Las Vegas and surrounding areas and slightly changed the regulations to make this game much more interesting and easier to play. In 1967 poker was first played in a casino.
For part of the year, the Golden Nugget Casino in Downtown Las Vegas was the only one yes the casino presents this game. Even though it is classified as low because the stakes offered are very low, many gamblers cannot accept much because no player dares to play with high stakes. But the new evolution will begin with an event from Casino Dunes on the Las Vegas Strip that offers a game at the entrance of their casino to attract other players to try the game. Here is a new regulation that allows players to increase bets to the maximum number of chips owned as a result of the Texas Hold’em No Limit game.
The first Texas hold’em tournament in the world
This game continued to be played like that until 1970 when the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament arose.
As a result, in 1970, Benny and Jack Binion won a convention right to hold a poker tournament that was given the name World Series of Poker or known as the WSOP held at their casino, Horseshoe Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Vegas. After the first year of the tournament, it changed its game variety into poker without limits like the game at Dunes Casino. Players at the casino welcomed this and made it the main event in the tournament which made the casino stable because many players came to play for two decades. Initially the WSOP itself only got 8 players in 1972 and consequently increased to hundreds of players until this time.
Here is a youtube video footage that mentions the course of the poker tournament in 1973.