Thanks to the internet, you can play cash poker.
All these games were played for cash – plus any other assets people were willing to risk. Poker as we know it spread throughout the Mississippi River Delta after the American Revolution.Then it was carried across the country by the famous Mississippi riverboats, where gambling still takes place to this day, and by prospectors during the gold rushes of the 1800s.
Historians have long argued about the origins of poker, but there’s one thing that makes this game different from its ancestors: betting.
