Texas Hold’Em
Poker fans and poker enthusiasts who have been playing for the past decade most likely got their start in the poker world playing Texas Hold’Em. For the longest time, the most popular type of poker has been the seven-card stud, but thanks to the media and to pop culture Texas Hold’Em has officially become the most popular type of poker that exists on the planet.
The birthplace of the Texas hold’em is as the name suggests, Texas, specifically a place called Robstown. The game was first conceived at the turn of the twentieth century, and for the next few decades the game slowly found its way throughout the biggest state in the United States. At the time it was known simply as hold’em – the Texas portion of its name will be added much later as recognition of where it came from. It was not until the late sixties that the game started to make its way out of the state and into Las Vegas. It was in 1967 when Texas hold’em first appeared in Las Vegas, and the players caught on with the game because unlike draw poker, Texas hold’em offered more opportunities for betting, thus also offering more time and more room for strategizing. It was not until the 70s that Texas Hold’Em found its home in Las Vegas though – the first few years did not garner the game as much recognition as it did when it became the main event of the newly-acquired and renamed Gambling Fraternity Convention, which was named the World Series of Poker. It was in the World Poker Series that Texas Hold’em was able to garner a permanent space in the Vegas grounds, and the game continued to rise in popularity.
In the 80s Texas Hold’em started to find its way to the rest of the states in America, and even found its way to Europe at around the same time. The rest of the world would wait for two more decades before the game finally broke out all over the world, but when it finally did, it quickly dethroned the seven-card stud as the most popular poker game in the world of poker. To this day the tournaments being shown on television and being featured in films are mostly Texas Hold’em games.