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The Background of Electronic Poker

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Electronic Poker is merely a blend of 2 well-liked forms of gambling: the video slot with the poker game. Succeeding at a game of Electronic-Poker requires a mixture of bettor talent with good luck, making it a favorite with players. The game of poker is thought to have originated back in Eighteen Thirty, where it is recorded as having been played by French newcomers residing in New Orleans. Video-Poker uses a variation of the game named five-card draw poker. At the same time, the coin-operated card machine (referred affectionately as a "slot") was originally developed in the late 1800’s, with poker machines showing up in San Francisco in Eighteen Ninety. These machines were quite basic by today’s specifications, using real cards instead of icons.

The machines dropped in popularity throughout the first half of the 1900’s. Economic problems mixed with the limited technologies of the machines themselves meant that people just weren’t interested in playing anymore. A extremely primitive digital poker device was released in Nineteen Sixty-Four but achieved only modest results.

It wasn’t until the mid-70’s that the Electronic-Poker machines as we know it today grew to become accessible. Breakthroughs in technologies meant that a computer chip (CPU) could be installed inside the machines to give them a "brain", while a video screen showed the action to the bettor.

Meanwhile, casino operators searched for new high-profit games, and the mixture of a video slot using the extra traditional game of five-card draw poker proved to be a winning combination from the old and new. The first Video Poker unit was built in 1976 by Bally Manufacturing. It was only black and white, but a color version was developed just eight months later, by the Fortune Coin Corporation. Over the next few years, computer chips started to be more affordable to mass produce, and extra gambling establishments introduced Video-Poker machines as they started to be a lot more financially viable. A version named Draw Poker was released in ‘79 by a company now named IGT, and it achieved amazing success.

Video Poker actually took off inside early 80s where it started to be well-known in casinos across Vegas. Gamblers discovered themselves much less intimidated by a unit than they were when sitting down at a table looking at others. The reputation of the game has gradually increased over the last twenty-five years and it can now be discovered in the majority of gambling establishments throughout the world, as well as in bars and on the Net.

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