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Pocker - card game in which you play against the casino or against other players. In both cases, you need to get better than that of the opponent combination of cards to win. In the casino also distributed Video pocker - slot machine for playing pocker.

Pocker History
Issue is to say where and when a pocker difficult. Perhaps the predecessor of pocker was Persian game "As Nas", which was probably brought by French settlers of New Orleans from the Persian seafarers. Name pocker may occur from the French word "Poque", while the German "Pochen". The rules of the game "pocker" in the early period does not differ complexity and were rudimentary. The game was to ad rates and compare combinations, which were only two: three identical cards and steam. English actor Joseph Crowell said that in the pocker played in New Orleans in 1829. The game was a deck of 20 cards between 4 players. Each player committed to the overall bank rate, and it won a player who had the highest hands of cards. Jonathan Green's book "An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling" states that the game has been the spread of seamen whose vessels went on the Mississippi River. For seamen of the time, playing pocker was normal time. Playing pocker also received spread during the "Gold fever", when the gold miners, for whom pocker was part of everyday life, went to the West of America. After pocker has received so widespread in the game began to use a deck of 52 cards and added a combination of Flush. In times of the American Civil War, there are many varieties of pocker. By 1700, it increased the number of cards distributed to players to five. Already in these times, among the players was widespread bluff, which has successfully used some of them.

Pocker Rules
The purpose player - to gather maps of better than the opponent, combination. Opponent can act as another player or the dealer, if the game waged against the casino. In case of winning player takes the current bank. Because now there are many varieties of the game "pocker": Omaha Hi Lo pocker, Omaha pocker, 7 card Stud pocker, 5 card Stud pocker, Texas Hold'em pocker, pocker and casino gaming combinations and rules for each of them may vary slightly friend from each other. For a long time the existence of pocker, he settled down well in many countries around the world and does not enjoy popularity. And with the advent of Internet casinos and online pocker rooms - he became even more popular. Online pocker, players from different countries can play among themselves, without leaving home.