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Poker Articles

Multi-hand High Speed Poker has been touted as the “Fastest Paced Poker Game Ever.” It is the creation of software developer Microgaming, a rather recent addition to the company’s Gold ...
The first version of “Wild Card” poker was seen in America’s Old West around 1875. Since then, it has spawned many variations, including Joker Poker, One-Eyed Jacks Wild and “Baseball,”...
Online poker began in the early 1990s as a game played by computer geeks via Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the forerunner of today’s chatrooms. Because IRC required a considerable understa...
The class of games known as “poker” can be divided into two broad categories—open and closed. In “open” poker, commonly referred to today as “stud,” a fixed number of cards are dealt, s...
The poker game known as Five Card Stud originated around the time of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). Often referred to simply as “Stud,” it is the basis for a variety of “open” poker vari...
Until 2010, it was virtually impossible to name the top poker player in the world. Some would answer with the name of the year’s top money earner on the tournament circuit. Others would...
The version of lowball poker known as “Badugi” originated in Asia. Although the source of its inception is not quite clear, the four-card game most certainly became popular in South Kor...
Mixed game formats have proven to be very popular when offered as part of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule. H.O.R.S.E. was the first multigame event introduced at the WSOP, a f...
The introduction of a mixed poker event called H.O.R.S.E. at the 2002 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a major breakthrough for players who enjoyed and excelled at a variety of forms of...
Lowball is a version of draw poker in which the lowest or “worst” hand wins. According to poker historians, the game first came into vogue in the United States after the turn of the 20t...
There are so many versions of the game known as “poker” that it is almost impossible for anyone to be able to play them all with a high level of skill. Most professional players concent...
The professional-level competitive poker game called 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball was first introduced at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 2007. Some 209 players paid $1,000 each to vie f...