Poker As a Career

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The History of poker

  English actor Joseph Cowell reported in his memoirs that the game was played in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1829, with a deck of 20 cards, and four players betting on which player's hand was the most valuable.Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling ( G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843 ), described the pread of the game from there to the rest of the country by  Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.
As it spread north along the Mississippi River and to the West during the gold rush, it is thought to have become a part of the frontier pioneer ethos.

Soon after this spread, the full 52-card English deck was used and the flush was introduced.
Modern tournament play became popular in American casinos after the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) began in 1970.In 1990 poker and casino gambling spread across the United States, most notably to  Atlantic City, New Jersey.Poker 's popularity experienced an unprecedente spike at the beginning of the 21st century, largely because of the introduction of online poker and hole-card cameras, which turned the game into a spectator sport.Not only could viewers now follow the action and drama of the game on television,but they could also play the game in the comfort of their own homes.Also in the 2003 World Series of Poker, Chris Moneymaker, who was an accountant and not a professional poker player, won the main event.He won his seat into the 10.000$ tournament via a 40$ multi-table satellite ( smaller buy-in tournaments where a player can play and win a seat in the bigger buy-in tournaments ) and turned his 40$ into 2.5 million $.
This helped popularize the game further, which became known as the " Moneymaker effect ".
Following the surge in popularity, new poker tours soon emerged, notably the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, both televised and the latter sponsored by online poker company PokerStars.

In 2009 the International Federation of Poker was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, becoming the official governing body for poker and promoting the games as a mind sport.In 2011 it announced plans for two new events: The Nations Cup, a duplicate poker team event, to be staged on the London Eye on the banks of the River Thames and " The Table ", the invitation-only IFP World Championship, featuring roughly 130 of the world's best poker players, in an event to find the 2011 official " World Champion "



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