Video Poker HistoryOne of the most popular and widely-known card games in North America is poker. It was all the rage in the United States in the mid 1830s and spread from the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to the east coast through the railroads. Poker has stayed the same for many years, with the introduction of the jokers as wild cards around 1875 being the last significant change.Video poker has existed since the mid 1970s and is closely related to the regular game of poker and consists of a combination of slot machines and five-card draw poker. Video poker is a term that refers to quite a few similar games of poker. Each game is played similarly, but have slightly different rules and payoffs. The main distinctions between regular poker and video poker is you are up against a machine instead of people, and the object is to draw certain posted hands instead of beating an opponent's hands. The invention of the computer chip has made video poker possible. |
