Video Poker is a mix between the Slot Machines and the normal Five Card Draw poker game . The objective of Video Poker is, as in the rules of Poker, to obtain the best possible hand according to the specific game that you are playing. Each game has specific rules and payments, but all are played in a similar way.
The exact date of the invention of the game of poker is not known, because no one knows specifically where it originated or who invented it. Even if the history of poker is obscure, the history of the current Video Poker goes back to the 70s of the last century, date in which the microchip was developed, necessary to operate any computer.However, the ancestors of the Video Poker machines that we know today can be traced back to the 19th century, when the ancestors of Slot Machines were slot machines that used Poker cards. These machines were manufactured by a firm in Brooklyn called Sittman and Pitt, according to the history of Slot Machines . The machines with Poker cards were initially placed in drink and cigarette shops, until they became popular and scattered around the American casinos.
It tells the story of Video Poker that the player would insert a coin into the poker machine and push the lever, rolling the drums that contained the poker cards. When the cards stopped, if there was a winning hand, the player received cigarettes or drinks. By the way, 10 of Spades and the Jack of Hearts were omitted - that's how the home advantage was born.When Charles Fey introduced the possibility of withdrawing cards ("draw") in the poker machine at the beginning of the 20th century, it was given one more step in the history of Video Poker. Now the player could use their strategies and knowledge of Poker and did not need to rely solely on luck.
To the extent that the interest of the people was slowing down with the appearance of Slot Machines and other slot machines more evolved, the game was falling a little into oblivion. At the end of the 70s the history of Video Poker took a leap with the development of computers and their microchip circuits. With monitors and sound and visual effects, this machine came to be installed in all casinos, even in online casinos.Even today the Video Poker machine is still one of the most popular casino games. The next step in the history of Video Poker was to implement those games (half Poker, half video game) in the world of online casinos , allowing access to everyone. More and more technology is developing and Video Poker machines have accompanied the history of the game over the last two centuries.
