We've considered stories of gunslingers, politicians and soldiers playing poker, including some famous fictions and literary treatments of the game as well as early strategy primers and applications of the game to business and military planning.
We've discussed poker games in 19th-century saloons, on steamboats and in frontier towns. Generally speaking, just about all of the cultural expressions of poker considered thus far in this series have featured the game's earliest and most popular variants - draw and stud. It has been updated as a feature during PokerNews' Texas Week.
This article comes from the PokerNews archives and was originally published on April 04, 2017.
