Poker and the American dream

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Poker has always been a microcosm of all we admire about American virtuel.It is part of the very fabric Americans have spent more than 220 years weaving into a national mosaic. Call it the American Dream -the belief that hard work and virtue will triumph, that anyone willing to work hard will succeed, that right makes might. It is an immigrant’s song, a mantra of hope; it is an anthem for everyone.Poker looks like such a simple game. Anyone, it seems, can play it well - though nothing, of course, is further from the truth. Learning the rules can be quick work but becoming a yinning player takes considerably longer. Still, anyone willing to make the effort can become a fairly good player.

You can succeed in poker the way you succeed in life: by facing it squarely, getting up earlier than the next person, and working harder and smarter than the competition.

Where It All Come From?

A profusion of western movies and gunfighter ballads has convinced the world that poker is a quintessentially American game, yet its roots go back hundreds of years. The Persians were said to play a poker-like game centuries ago.

Germans played a bluffing game called Pochen as early as the sixteenth century; later, there was a French version called Poque. The French brought this game with them to New Orleans and its popularity spread - aided by the paddle wheelers that traveled the Mississippi.
Poque soon became known as poker, and the rules were modified during the Civil War to allow cards to be drawn to improve one’s hand.

Stud poker, still very popular today, appeared at about the same time.

People all over the world play poker, with hundred of versions played in home games everywhere. You can find games going on in casinos and poker rooms in most of the United States, England, Ireland, France, Holland, Austria, Germany, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Aruba, Costa Rica, and probably a few other countries too. People play for pennies around the kitchen table and
professionally for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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