Different versions evolved from this first 'Pogue' game and they were called 'Stud' and 'Draw'. The official name for the game turned into 'Poker ' in 1834 by a gambler named Jonathan H. Green. Green learned how to play card games in prison and after his release he went to the Mississippi River where most of those days gambling action took place. He became a professional card player and discovered the different versions of the 'Pogue' game. Green loved this new game and since he couldn't find a name in the dictionary for it, he decided to call it Poker.
History of Texas Holdem
Nobody really knows were Texas Hold em exactly comes from. The legend goes that the very first location were the game Texas Hold em was ever played in the now played version was in Robstown in Texas in 1900. The World Series of Poker Tournament made the Texas Hold em game really famous. The WSOP has been organized since 1970 at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas and ever since then the game Texas Hold em, which is played in that tournament, has been played by poker players all over the world.
Internet Texas Holdem
Thanks to modern technologies it is no longer necessary for people to travel to Las Vegas to get a piece of all the Texas Hold em poker action. Nowadays gambling is possible from people's own living room, for free, in internet casinos. Playing in internet casinos and online poker rooms is totally free. It's not quite clear what was the first free website was that started to feature Texas Hold em games, since all the Texas Hold em entered the internet around the same time as the start of the success of internet casinos, in the nineties of the twentieth century. Chris Moneymaker, WSOP champion in 2003 and Greg Raymer, winner of the WSOP 2004 main event were both qualified through free poker rooms on the internet.
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