What to read to understand poker, the finest game ever invented

Books are regularly published about poker, detailing the development of the game We just don't know exactly who coined it … or where

In 1834, Jonathan H Green made one of the earliest written references to poker when in his writing he mentions rules to the “cheating game,” being played on

who won the lottery in the story the lottery However, there are some points where Cardano's description seems to match a poker game of the baseball type, where a player's hand is revealed card by card; I

who won the lottery tonight PLAYING cards were invented by the Chinese before AD1000 They reached Europe around 1360, not directly from China but from the Mameluke empire of Egypt