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Poker History
 Poker History: The debate is often about poker's origins, ranging from theories that are based on translations from German, French and Hindu about a game with 20 cards, which included soldiers and higher, the river boats along the Mississippi during the 1800s. The fact remains that it is an extremely popular game among both amateurs and professionals.
Only in the last ten years, poker has grown in popularity through the media such as television, newspapers and of course over the Internet. This ever-present has led to an enormous growth in the number of people who play poker around the world and have made poker a popular spectatorsport. People from different cultures, regions and age groups are playing poker and one of the advantages is that it is very easy to learn. Poker only takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.
Poker was invented around 1820 in New Orleans but is developed from the old card game. The fact is that even in Shakespeare's England in the early 1600s thought they primero, where you could bet money on flushes and quads - and indeed bluffing! From New Orleans to cyberspace - so here's what happened when it went:
1820. Poker spread northward from New Orleans with the hundreds of paddle steamer which served the Mississippi River, and then westward through the saloons. Until the Civil War was played poker with only five cards were on hand.
1829th Poker was first mentioned in the literature, the actor Joe Cowell memoirs.
1860: Stud launched with face-up card visible to everyone.
1870s: Poker coming to Europe in earnest. The American ambassador Robert C. Schenk taught the British Queen Victoria how to play poker and caused a minor diplomatic scandal!
 1876th Wild Bill Hickok shot from behind at Nuttal and Mann's Number 10 Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, the bandit Jack "Crooked Nose" McCall. Hickok sat with the poker history's most famous short, "dead man's hand, consisting of two pair, black aces and black eights. If the fifth card is still in dispute: it must have been either the ninth grade diamonds, diamonds, or diamonds tenth lady.
1890th Poker is coming to Sweden.
1897th The first written mention of poker (29 April in the newspaper Aftonbladet).
1903rd First Swedish poker book comes out. The game uses the examples the writer Hugo "Joker" Vallentin bets at 2 and 4 cents.
1910s. Texas hold 'em, according to legend was invented in Texas, in a farm where they wanted all sixteen men who fought together could be in the same game.
1940th Poker gets its dissemination in Canada. During 1940 - and 1950s was the poker playing such a large problem in the Swedish workplace that LO periodically ran campaigns against the game's dangers.
1947th President Richard Nixon financed his first political campaign (against Democrat Jerry Voorhis) with money he won at poker during his time in the Navy.
1963rd The modern poker's era begins at the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas. First poker rooms open to the public.
1964th First permanent dealers at the tables
1965th Poker movie "The Cincinnati Kid" has premiered with Steve McQueen in the lead role.
1970th First Poker Championship, "World Series of Poker", was organized in 1970 at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas. Six people participated, and the winner after a week of games in Hold'em, Stud, lowball and another was Johnny Moss 
1971st LA Times journalist Ted Thackrey invents the modern racing format of poker with escalating blinds and antes, and the winner finally took care of all the chips.
1975th Findings of these races of poker (five card draw poker) is held, for legal reasons, in Monte Carlo. Winners were Gote Åhrman.
1988th First Swede takes the World Cup. Stefan Dios ends 36th.
1990s. TV channel ESPN begins broadcasting final day of the World Series of Poker.
1998th First pure poker program on TV, Late Night Poker in Great Britain, has been premiered. First season's winner is Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott.
1998th Poker movie "Rounders" with Matt Damon and John Malkovich have been premiered.
1995th Barbara Enright is the first woman to reach the final table of the poker season. She finished fifth and receive $ 114,180.
1998th First website for poker games for real money (Planet Poker).
2,001th Casino Cosmopol in Malmö inaugurated. First legal poker party at a Swedish casino takes place.
2004th Martin "Knife" de Knijff cams home the biggest Swedish tournament win,21 million at the World Poker Tour 2004th
2005th Largest poker profits in history - nearly 60 million - goes to Australian Joseph Hachem of victory in the poker world championships. First televised tournament Swedish (Swedish Poker Challenge). The best-selling nonfiction book in Sweden, all categories, is "Tutorial", according to Library Service lists. The entire 230,000 Swedes say the SIFO that they have ever played poker on the Internet. Poker designated as the "Year Christmas".
2006th Over 8,000 people set up in the WSOP. Boteros plate with a strip poker scene sold for 1.7 million U.S. dollars.
2007th The psychologist Jerry Yang World Champions 2007 - Lao-born Californians Jerry Yang can call itself the world's best poker players. The reward: 56 million.
 1949 Nick The Greek Dandalos comes to Las Vegas in search of, the highest pokergame in the world. Benny Binion knew only one who dared to stand on it. He offered to arrange both the game and a worthy opponent, a condition that the entire skuleske audience. Nick said OK, and Binion called his childhood friend Johnny Moss in Dallas. Moss had fed himself for over 20 years as a professional poker player. Moss drove to Las Vegas, shook hands with The Greek and sat down at the table. Their lot was to be in five months, with games three, four and sometimes five days in a row before they cut the tempo right to sleep. Finally Dandalos got enough, getting up from the table with a pronounced reply retained among the poker legends.
"Mr. Moss, I have to let you go."
No one knows exactly how much Nick lost.
Rumors speak of more than two million U.S. dollars.
Thr Greek died Christmas Day in 1966, penniless. Shortly before his death, he estimated in an interview that he was a total lost, and lost, between two and three billion U.S. dollars during his life.
Always expect the unexpected in poker.
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