With millions of active players in the world, it is no longer a niche gamble for a few select individuals, but the game that is dominating the world’s poker scene, with no signs of falling behind. Since then, Hold’em has taken over the world and has become the number one poker game out there. The game quickly gained its reputation as a “ thinking man’s game”.
Since the game includes no limits and is complicated by nature, the possibility of complex strategies has arisen.
Unlike a lot of poker hand variants popular at the time, solid strategy has determined Hold’em players’ success more often than luck. The game remained unknown to the public for decades, until they launched it in Las Vegas, in 1967 at the Golden Nugget casino.
Most people that are knowledgeable in the subject agree that Holdem was first played in Texas, in the city of Robstown, during the early 1900s. Even though the origins of Texas Holdem and its interesting ways of playing poker hands are relatively unknown, there seems to be a consensus about the birthplace of the game.
