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Popular game of the 21th century

It is no secret that poker is one of the most popular game in the whole world. The history of poker throw back, some different sources of information says that poker appeared in the 16th century. Poker game came from European countries - France, Italy, Spain. The rules of the game were a bit different from the current rules and in some cases they included bidding and comparison of the combinations very often. Accordingly who had the biggest combination became a winner. With the course of time the rules changed and supplemented. Nowadays we have another game than it formed in Europe.

Poker was gone to America when the colonization started. There poker became national game with using 52 cards. Nowadays poker is widespread game not only in the USA but in the whole world. Poker was the first game which became popular in casino. From the 20th century club poker gained ground everywhere. The main difference between club poker and typical casino poker is that the club game leads without croupier but with opponents.

In 1963 one of the biggest prize was fixed in GrandRoyal casino in Las Vegas. Jason Camual won really fantastic sum - 1.000.000$. Every year a great number of poker tournaments take place in the whole world: USA, England, Europe, Russia, India, even Africa. Tournament - a poker game, where all players begin to play with the same quantity of chips. Usually the tournament is played till that moment when one player gets all the chips. And by means of internet everyone can play in popular tournaments. It may only depends on your wishes.

Today poker is a card game with 52 cards and with Joker in some cases. Everyone can play poker not only in casino. It's becoming more and more popular to play online. Internet offers the opportunity to play poker for free and with real money and real money prizes. Partypoker are the leading poker web-sites, which provide considerable bonuses and where thousands of participants play poker for interest or money. So nowadays everyone can enjoy poker regardless of the geographical location or time of the day.

At the present time there are a lot of types of club poker, which have differences only in details. But the main idea of poker - to get the highest combination from 5 or 3 cards. The most well-liked games are Texas Hold'Em, Omaha, Omaha Hold'em, Omaha High, Omaha High-Low, 5 Cards Stud, 7 Cards Stud, 7 Cards Stud High. There are also another types of poker.

As poker lovers like to say: "Good player is not that who win a lot, but that who lose à little!"