Stud poker
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It’s always fun to play stud poker, but most players haven’t the slightest clue where the game came from in the first place. Care to learn? Its origins might intrigue you.
In reality nobody really, definitively knows where or how 7 card stud originated. It’s commonly believed, however, that ‘poker’ derives from the French game called Poque, which when translated from German means ‘to knock’. That may explain the name, but unfortunately the game play doesn’t really mirror Poque.
More likely it came from Nas, a Persian game with a deck composed of five suits which plays very similarly to stud poker. And bluffing came from yet another source, an English game known as Bragg that plays with three cards rather than seven.
The first recorded game of Poker (not stud, just plain poker) came in 1829. It was played with only 20 cards, but featured the same goal of having the best hand at the end of the day. It soon spread to riverboats on the Mississippi, with the standard 52 cards available for play. Most commonly at this time it was used by con artists hoping to make cash off unwary travelers.
Stud poker came to being during the Civil War, in the form of Five Card Stud as played by cowboys. Draw poker would remain the popular choice, however, until somebody *nobody really knows who) came up with the idea to play stud hands with seven cards. This brand of card playing eventually led to another transformation that would rock the card-playing world: the stud, already a variant of draw, would eventually lead to the development of Texas Hold’Em, by far the most popular variant to date.
Regardless of which game you choose to play, however, you’re likely to find it in any online casino. All of these variants and more can typically be found in any poker website across the web and beyond, also played by hundreds of people every day in brick and mortar gaming houses. And for the tech-heads of the world, the Internet has become a prime site for playing these games with an international audience.