poker

In the past twenty years, poker has grown from a mainly American and British phenomenon to one of the most played card games and games of chance in the world. Whether it's online poker, playing poker in a regular casino or just playing poker at friends' homes. Not that you couldn't play poker in the Netherlands before that time, but the number of poker players in the Netherlands was not too big for that time. However, the game has been around for a very long time. In the early years it was mainly Draw Poker that was played, but soon variants came into play, such as Stud Poker and Holdem poker. While all these games have different rules, some things are the same. The main similarity between all variants and thus what makes poker really poker, are the card combinations with which people win, the fact that no one can see each other's cards and that money has to be bet.