Texas Hold'em Poker – Introduction

Texas Hold'em Poker is the most popular form of poker to be played in the 21^st century and is the type of poker played in the World Series of Poker.

The game of poker has a long history. Card games are believed by some to have initially developed in China over 1000 years ago, and spread throughout the world. The game of poker is believed to have developed from European games such as the French card game “poque”, the Spanish card game “primero”, the German card game “pochspiel” and the English game of “Brag”, Some people claim that it can be traced back even further, to a 16^th century Persian card game called “As Nas”.

Although the exact origins of poker are not certain, the modern game was developed in America. French settlers in New Orleans during the nineteenth century appear to have introduced poker to the US, and the game has continued to develop and become increasingly popular since that time.

Numerous variations of poker began to appear during the early twentieth-century, and Texas Hold'em poker developed out of the original “community card” poker games that are first recorded around 1919.

In Texas Hold'em Poker, each player is initially dealt two cards face down, and the dealer then deals five “community cards”, which can be used by all players to form their hands.

The aim of Texas Hold'em Poker is to make the strongest five-card hand that you can out of the seven cards with which you have been dealt. The player with the strongest hand at the end of the game wins the pot (the pile of chips that gradually builds up during the game from the players' stakes).

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