History of Video Poker

The origin of video poker is from the poker game and slot machines too and is a hybrid game. The small sum of information concerning poker’s origin, and this is also generally debatable and largely questionable, is usually considered as poker as it is familiar with us today, started out in a serious manner on the Mississippi River where it was played on the riverboats as a popular hobby.

Games played by coins were simultaneously favourites throughout the American parlours and shops. When drop card machines, for instance, the six way paying teller, being developed by Charles Fey, became his first slot machine that actually grasped the imagination of the public. The former coin operated machine games were soon overtaken by the slot machines and became then the highly favourite games.

Game aficionados during the nineteen sixties found mechanical poker games more oscillating popularity. Yet, as technology progressed, casino game evolved became more broadly well known and in the 1970s Poker-Matic of Dale Electronics turned out to be Las Vegas’s favourite of all.

When the video bell slot machine of the Fortune Coin Company was amended then in 1975 the first hybrid machine was created into casino functional draw poker machine. The discovery became an immediate favourite and formed an industry both dynamic and competing as it focused on the video poker machine’s manufacture. William Redd was among the leading proponents of this novel sphere and is the present colossal International Game Technology’s creator.

In the middle of the 1970s when the microchip was invented, the video poker machine games experienced a row of state of the art innovations, distributed all over the country’s casinos. The video poker machine, till today, together with the slot machines, is still among the favourite casino games and most successful games and is a permanent income source for all the main casinos.