History of Playing Cards
Let's start from the beginning to when and where playing cards themselves
were created. It all started out of 13th Century China. The Mamluk empire
took the playing cards and converted to their own with 52 cards. The cards
consists of 4 suits, but not the same suits that we see today in playing
cards. The suits were swords, polo sticks, goblets, and coins. The cards
also contain 13 ranks like the playing cards today, but it was slightly
different. The ranks back then was numbers 1 to 10, junior viceroy, senior
viceroy, and king.
History of Poker
As the years went by, different card games was formed. In the sixteenth
century, the French created their own bluffing game called "Poque",
which they brought with them to New Orleans. There its popularity grew
and "Poque" soon became known as Poker. During the Civil War,
the rules of the game were modified to allow cards to be drawn to improve
a player's hand.
Nowaday there is huge variety of poker versions. There's Chinese poker,
3 card poker, Omaha, Caribbean Poker, and many more. Of course the past
few years, the biggest and most popular form of poker is Texas Hold Em.
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