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Caribbean Poker History
Caribbean stud poker originated in the Caribbean
Islands and on cruise ships that sailed the Caribbean ocean.
Because caribbean stud poker is not especially favorable
for the player, when Las Vegas casinos approved caribbean
stud poker, they added a progressive jackpot. Although the
jackpot doesn't benefit the caribbean stud poker player
that much, it has helped to make the game popular enough
to become a household name in most casinos.
The forerunner of Poker was a 16th century
European three-card game called primera (Spain) or primero
(England). There was betting and winning hands were three
of a kind, pairs, and three of the same suit: a flux (later
flush). By the 18th century the betting and bluffing aspects
of the game had been incorporated in such five-card games
as Brag (England), Pochen (Germany), and Poque (France).
The importance of bluffing (betting with a poor hand) is
shown by the fact that pochen means "to bluff."
The game was brought over to the new world
in the 18th century by French colonists to the Louisiana
territory, the American term being a corruption of Poque.
The game spread north up the Mississippi River and West
as the country developed. By 1834 it was adapted to the
52-card deck and from the mid 19th century on it was described
in books on card games. At first it was a game for men only,
but by the mid 20th century it was played by women as well.
It is the classic game in all Western films.
Poker was taken back to Europe when Robert
C. Schenck, U.S. minister to Great Britain, introduced it
to members of the court of Queen Victoria in the early 1870s.
A set of rules written by Schenck was the first book on
the game.
The rank of hands in the original European games was supplanted
(in descending order) by four of a kind; full house (three of a kind and
a pair); three of a kind; two pairs; one pair; and no pair (high card
winning). Later the straight (five cards in sequence regardless of suit)
and the flush were introduced, ranking, respectively, above three of a
kind. Additional rounds of betting were also introduced. Thank you for
readin through our Caribbean Poker History.
