History of Poker 

Since years, many stories about the game of poker have come up but realistically there seems to be no there are many different stories about how poker came into this world and there seems to be no concrete explanation to prove the existence of any predecessor of poker. The game of poker is indeed believed to be a combination of many forms of card games that had been evolved and played by people over time.   

Some people believe that Poker game had its origin from China around 900 A.D, like many other recognizable gambling games. It was played with painted dominoes at that time since the cards were not invented yet. The game called as “domino cards” was introduced by the Chinese ruler of that time Mu Tsung and this game is believed to be the oldest form of poker.  

Another story tells us about a game from Germany called 'Pochspiel'. This game has very close similarities to the name and rules of the modern day poker. One more theory makes people believe that it actually originated from India. The game called “Ganjifa”  in India was played with ninety six painted playing card and these cards were used for different betting games, this having close similarities to the modern day poker. 

Poker was born in France – a most common belief that developed with the game played in 15th century in France called “Pogue”. This game was played of 52 cards and 4 suits. The game included betting and bluffing and came to us with the French colonists in the beginning of 17th century. During the civil war “pogue” was being played by many soldiers to pass their time. Thus from the first Pogue game many different forms came into existence. 

Pogue was turned into 'Poker' in 1834 by a gambling a fan called Jonathan H. Green. He learned to play card games while he was in prison and after he was released he went to Mississippi to entertain people with his new card playing skills. He was very passionate about this game and discovered many different forms of the Pogue game. This is when he decided to call this game by the name of Poker