Sometime during the early 1900s, poker players in the state of Texas conceived the rules of a new variant and crystallized how to play Texas Hold’em.
The poker world was dominated by 5-card draw and then 7-card stud for over 100 years. The game is played worldwide and if you watch poker on TV, 99% of the time you are watching Texas Hold’em poker. Texas Hold’em is the most popular form of poker today.