The Poker Mag

Poker has developed as a game rather quietly during it’s early history, always being known as a game for hustlers and cheats until around 40 years ago.

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During that time the game developed many different formats and variations of the game, with each of these providing it’s own challenge to poker players. Around the early 1970′s the World Series of Poker began to bring the game a little more into the public eye, attracting the best players in the world, and giving them a chance to test their skills against each other.

This gradually caught the attention of the potential players out there who had at least a passing interest in the game, and the exploits of great poker players such as Johnny Moss and Doyle Brunson began to inspire.
With televised poker games came the under table camera, and later on, the internet provided a place for players to learn the game from the comfort of their own home. This opened the world of poker to the masses, and pretty soon the game started to grow much faster than before.

Over the past ten years or so, poker has experienced a huge boom in popularity, stretching to many countries across the globe.  Texas Holdem has been the favoured game for a long time now, but some might argue the tables are beginning to turn in terms of the most popular poker game today. With the passing years, Holdem players have become tougher to beat as their expertise grows, and so the best in the world have begun to embrace Omaha a little more. This is undoubtedly still a game where players make plenty of mistakes, and so the potential for profitable situations for experienced players is good. It is the belief of many (including myself) that Omaha will become the next big poker game in due course, but there will always be a place in the hearts of most poker players, for Texas Holdem.