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1. john.dex

   February 18th, 2010 at 11:54 am

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   i remeber reading in a book called “poker Nation” by andy bellin (great book by the way, improved my game a hundredfold) that it was a a mixture of two card games, one a spanish game known as As, the other Poken. over time the two were probaly confused by someone and became pokas and years later poker

2. Raina

   February 18th, 2010 at 6:06 pm

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   this will answer your questions:http://www.pokertips.org/history/origins…http://www.pokerpages.com/pokerinfo/hist…http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/6/ori…