{"id":8726,"date":"2021-05-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betvisa888.com\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2022-07-14T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:40:15","slug":"why-is-poker-called-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betvisa888.com\/poker\/blog\/why-is-poker-called-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Poker Called Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How did a popular card game between several individuals get its name \"poker<\/a>\"?  Poker has gone through several name changes across different countries. Over the years, the card game has gone through different changes along with new rules upon entering US shores. In this article, we go through the origin of poker to know how it got its name and how it evolved over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin of The Poker Name<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When looking back into poker history, the game of Poch<\/a> is considered as the likely inspiration to poker. Poch or Poque in France<\/a>, which uses a 32 or 52 card deck and a Poch board.<\/strong> Each Poch board consists of cups labeled as ace, king, queen, jack, ten, marriage, sequence, Poch, and Pinke. A designated banker puts a chip in each cup except for the Pinke one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three phases during Poch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Players win chips during this turn if they are holding a trump suited ten, jack, queen, king, and ace, which lets them take the chip from the cups named after the cards they are holding.<\/strong> Anyone holding both the king and queen wins the money from the marriage cup. You will want to have three cards with the same suit sequence of cards or a three-card straight flush to win the chips from the sequence cups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This turn has nearly the same sequence as regular poker where players bet on who has the strongest hand or set. Set are made from two, three, or four cards with the same rank. Players who are betting this turn place their chips to the Pinke cup, which acts as the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you would expect from this turn, players attempt to bluff and convey a weaker or strong hand to manipulate their opponent.<\/strong> One interesting note here is the word \"Pochen\", which means bluff or brag in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shedding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Poch turns into a different game in this urn where players try to discard as few cards as possible. This turn begins with a player discarding their lowest valued card from his longest suit. Players keep discarding the cards until the ace is discarded or the next highest card is within the talon. Anyone who played the last card can use any of the cards in his hand. Chips are provided to players based on how many cards they had left when this turn ended.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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