Origin of Three Card Poker
Where did three card poker originate? How did it come to be the most popular casino poker variant played around the world and online today? The growth of this game, little known as recently as 1990, has been fairly rapid by gaming standards. However the origins of the game run much deeper and further back in time than this. Three-card poker is an offshoot of the original game of Poker . Poker itself has been around for centuries — it is considered such a well-established game that some would like us to believe that playing cards were devised in order for Poker to be played. Some historians maintain that Poker was played with Tarot cards prior to the invention of the modern-day playing card. In any event, poker players are definitely thankful for the development and spread of Poker which brought us three-card poker The name Poker is adapted from a mixture of the French word, “Poque” and the German word, “Pochen” which both mean to knock. Implying, the idea is to knock out the othe...