The Origin of Poker
There was a time in the Middle-East when things were not so chaotic. I believe it was for a few hours on a lazy Saturday, a few hundred years ago. The Crusades were over, and the Catholics had switched focus to farm women who may or may not have been witches. Poker History – Whats in a Name?
Most people don’t give the name much thought. They are too busy trying to perfect the mechanics of stealing the pot with only a pair of threes to bother themselves with how the game was actually named. Those of us with too much time on our hands tend to ponder such things.
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