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Video Poker is simply a blend of 2 popular forms of betting: the slots with the poker game. Winning a game of Electronic Poker requires a combination of gambler ability with genuine luck, making it a favorite with bettors. The game of poker is believed to have begun back in Eighteen Thirty, where it is recorded as having been enjoyed by French newcomers living in New Orleans. Video-Poker uses a variation of the game known as five-card draw poker. At the same time, the coin-operated card device (known affectionately as a "slot machine") was first created in the late Nineteenth century, with poker machines appearing in San Francisco in Eighteen Ninety. These machines were quite simple by today’s standards, using real cards instead of symbols.

The machines declined in acceptance throughout the first half of the Twentieth century. Economic difficulties combined with the limited technologies of the machines themselves meant that persons just were not interested in wagering anymore. A quite simple electronic digital poker device was released in Nineteen Sixty-Four but accomplished only reasonable results.

It wasn’t until the mid-70’s that the Electronic Poker machines as we know it today became accessible. Improvements in technologies meant that a central processing unit (CPU) could be put inside the machines to give them a "brain", whilst a monitor transmitted the action to the gambler.

Meanwhile, casino operators searched for new high-profit games, and also the blend of a video slot machine using the more traditional game of five-card draw poker proved to be a winning blend of the old and new. The 1st Electronic Poker machines was built in ‘76 by Bally Manufacturing. It was only black and white, but a color version followed just 8 months later, released by the Fortune Coin Business. Over the next couple of years, chips grew to become cheaper to mass produce, and a lot more gambling establishments introduced Video Poker machines as they became more financially viable. A version named Draw Poker was released in 1979 by a organization now called IGT, and it achieved amazing success.

Electronic Poker really took off inside early 1980s where it started to be common in gambling establishments across Sin City. Players discovered themselves far less intimidated by a machine than they were when sitting down at a table with others. The popularity of the game has steadily improved throughout the last twenty-five years and it can now be found in the majority of casinos throughout the world, along with bars and on the Web.