Poker is the name of the game

Whether played as a casual recreation or as a cutthroat profession, poker endures as America's most popular card game.Its been estimated that 70 million Americans are familiar with the standard rules of poker, marking it as quite the socially acceptable gambling activity.The game is incredibly adaptable, and the growing popularity of online poker attests to that.The game of Poker has evolved through the years, through many backroom games to the present day casinos around the world.Its history is rich with famous places and characters.For example, during the Wild West period of United States history, a saloon with a Poker table could be found in just about every town from coast to coast.

Today, Poker is carefully regulated by gambling laws, and saloons have given way to casinos and cardrooms, but Poker is played more than any other card game in the world.It has grown into a sporting event, with competitions and tournaments all around the world.Tournaments take place almost every week of the year somewhere in the world.If you compare the prizes of major sporting events around the world, you will find that the monetary outcome of any given event in Poker would (pardon the pun) stack up.Poker today is one of the fastest growing, but hardly recognized sporting events.The pinnacle of the poker world, The World Series of Poker, attracts players from all over the world every year to compete for money and titles as the world's top Poker players.Poker will always be around and will continue to grow and flourish like so many other past times.There will always be a poker game to play, money to be won, and crowns to be worn.