Game

Poker

Casino and Scoring Card Games

Poker is a family of card games in which players bet on the value of their hand, combining chance, mathematical probability and psychological bluffing. Its exact origin is genuinely disputed among game historians. Candidate ancestors include the sixteenth century German bluffing game Pochen, its French derivative Poque, played in New Orleans by the early nineteenth century, and the English game Brag. A once common theory tracing poker to the Persian card game As Nas is now regarded by several modern game historians, including James McManus in Cowboys Full, as unsupported by solid evidence, a claim repeated for years without a documented chain connecting the two games. The game now recognizably called poker developed in the United States in the early nineteenth century around New Orleans and Mississippi riverboat gambling; the writer Jonathan H. Green 1834 account of Mississippi riverboat gambling is among the earliest surviving descriptions of a game recognizable as poker, though undocumented earlier play is often claimed for the 1820s.

Facts

Originating Region

United States, primarily New Orleans and the Mississippi River region, with contested European antecedents 1

Game Type

Card game, betting and bluffing 1

Playing Time

10 2

Designer

(Uncredited) 2

Publisher

(Public Domain) 2

Publisher

(Unknown) 2

Publisher

Argos 2

Publisher

Autruche 2

Publisher

Castrol 2

Publisher

Chad Valley Co Ltd. 2

Publisher

Cheatwell Games 2

Publisher

Cossack Vodka 2

Publisher

Crisloid 2

Publisher

Duty Free Club of Fine Brands 2

Publisher

Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore) 2

Publisher

FridgePlay 2

Publisher

H. P. Gibson & Sons 2

Publisher

Heineken 2

Publisher

House Martin 2

Publisher

House of Marbles 2

Publisher

Hoyle Products 2

Publisher

Jack Daniel's 2

Publisher

Johnnie Walker 2

Publisher

Jumbo 2

Game Category

Dice 2

Game Mechanic

Betting and Bluffing 2

Game Mechanic

Dice Rolling 2

Minimum Players

2 2

Maximum Players

12 2

Disputed

Origin Year

1834 1

1834 is the date of Jonathan H. Green written account describing a game recognizable as poker being played on Mississippi riverboats, one of the earliest surviving documented descriptions. Undocumented earlier play is often claimed for around 1829 in New Orleans, and the game itself draws on older European games including the German Pochen and French Poque; a once common theory tracing poker to the Persian game As Nas is now regarded by several game historians as unsupported. No single origin date commands consensus.

Governing Body

Poker has no single global governing body with universal recognition. The International Federation of Match Poker (IFMP), founded 29 April 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland, describes itself as the global governing body for Match Poker, a scored, chance-reduced tournament variant, and won provisional membership of the International Mind Sports Association in 2010; the World Series of Poker, poker's best known international championship, is run commercially rather than by any federation. 3

Multiple bodies have claimed a governing role for poker since the 2000s (the earlier International Poker Federation founded 2002, FIDPA founded 2007, and IFMP founded 2009 among them); IFMP is the one this wave could verify directly, by reading its own Wikipedia page, so it is the one cited. No source checked this wave shows any of these bodies holding the kind of near-universal recognition FIFA or FIDE hold in their sports.

Classification

Player Count

Two-Player 1

Sport

Game Type (category)

Card Game 1

Poker

1 entry

Nationality

Active Era

Jimmy Cha

Poker

Connections

Ancestor Of

Kuhn poker

Kuhn poker is explicitly described as a simplified poker variant; derived-from links it to the general Poker game entity.

Source Kuhn poker (Wikipedia)

Featured In

World Series of Poker

Source Cowboys Full: The Story of PokerJames McManus

Long-Form Articles

Poker's Bid to Be Recognized as a Mind Sport

Played By

Sebastian Ruthenberg

Source Sebastian Ruthenberg (Wikipedia)

Shari Flanzer

Source Shari Flanzer (Wikipedia)

Shaun Deeb

Source Shaun Deeb (Wikipedia)

Shawn Buchanan

Source Shawn Buchanan (Wikipedia)

Sherkhan Farnood

Source Sherkhan Farnood (Wikipedia)

Starla Brodie

Source Starla Brodie (Wikipedia)

Stephen Chidwick

Source Stephen Chidwick (Wikipedia)

Steve Billirakis

Source Steve Billirakis (Wikipedia)

Steve Paul-Ambrose

Source Steve Paul-Ambrose (Wikipedia)

Steve Sung

Source Steve Sung (Wikipedia)

Steve Zolotow

Source Steve Zolotow (Wikipedia)

Stu Ungar

Source Wikipedia, Stu Ungar

Svetlana Gromenkova

Source Svetlana Gromenkova (Wikipedia)

T. J. Cloutier

Source T. J. Cloutier (Wikipedia)

Ted Forrest

Source Ted Forrest (Wikipedia)

Thomas Bihl

Source Thomas Bihl (Wikipedia)

Thomas Cannuli

Source Thomas Cannuli (Wikipedia)

Thomas Chung (poker player)

Source Thomas Chung (poker player) (Wikipedia)

Thor Hansen

Source Thor Hansen (Wikipedia)

Titanic Thompson

Source Titanic Thompson (Wikipedia)

Todd Brunson

Source Todd Brunson (Wikipedia)

Tom Franklin (poker player)

Source Tom Franklin (poker player) (Wikipedia)

Tom McEvoy

Source Tom McEvoy (Wikipedia)

Tony Dunst

Source Tony Dunst (Wikipedia)

Tony Ma

Source Tony Ma (Wikipedia)

Upeshka De Silva

Source Upeshka De Silva (Wikipedia)

Valter Farina

Source Valter Farina (Wikipedia)

Vanessa Rousso

Source Vanessa Rousso (Wikipedia)

Vanessa Selbst

Source Wikipedia: Vanessa Selbst

Victor Ramdin

Source Victor Ramdin (Wikipedia)

Viktor Blom

Source Viktor Blom (Wikipedia)

Vince Burgio

Source Vince Burgio (Wikipedia)

Walter Browne

Source Walter Browne (Wikipedia)

Will Durkee

Source Will Durkee (Wikipedia)

Xuan Liu (poker player)

Stated in the cited article.

Source Xuan Liu (poker player) (Wikipedia)

Yevgeniy Timoshenko

Source Yevgeniy Timoshenko (Wikipedia)

Yuri Dzivielevski

Source Yuri Dzivielevski (Wikipedia)

Yuval Bronshtein

Source Yuval Bronshtein (Wikipedia)

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Sources

1. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker

James McManus, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Wikipedia, article summary lead
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, with varying rules in different places. While the earliest known form of the game was played with just 20 cards, today it is usually played with a standard 52-card deck, although in countries where short packs are common, it may be play
Featured In: World Series of Poker
Played By: Chris Moneymaker

2. Poker Dice (BoardGameGeek)

Playing Time: 10
Designer: (Uncredited)
Publisher: (Public Domain)
Publisher: (Unknown)
Publisher: Argos
Publisher: Autruche
Publisher: Castrol
Publisher: Chad Valley Co Ltd.
Publisher: Cheatwell Games
Publisher: Cossack Vodka
Publisher: Crisloid
Publisher: Duty Free Club of Fine Brands
Publisher: Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore)
Publisher: FridgePlay
Publisher: H. P. Gibson & Sons
Publisher: Heineken
Publisher: House Martin
Publisher: House of Marbles
Publisher: Hoyle Products
Publisher: Jack Daniel's
Publisher: Johnnie Walker
Publisher: Jumbo
Game Category: Dice
Game Mechanic: Betting and Bluffing
Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 12

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