It is commonly regarded as sharing ancestry with the Renaissance game of primero and the French brelan. Thus the name of the game descended the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to brag as a bluff' lit. Foster wrote: 'the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of As-Nas.' There is evidence that a game called poque, a French game similar to poker, was played around the region where poker is said to have originated. In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, R. Since its early beginnings, poker has grown to become an extremely popular pastime throughout the world.ġ9th century Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents. The card game of poker was developed in the United States at some point during the early 19th century, drawing its name and basic concept from much earlier European games.

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