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Poker is a game which involves betting, hand ranking and bluffing. There are many theories on the origin of poker. R.F Foster, an expert on card games, traces the origin of poker to the Persian game of As Nas. The old school of thought tries to draw the ancestry of poker from earlier games, such as the French game Poque, the German Pochen, the renaissance game Primero, the French Brelan, the English Brag and so on.
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The modern theorists believe that poker originated in the early or mid-1700 and became popular in the Mississippi river region by 1800 where river boats facilitated the spread of the game to other parts of the United States.
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