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APPENDICES
Appendix A
History
The memoirs of an English actor (Joseph Crowell) touring America in 1829 described a game being
played in New Orleans in which each player received five cards and made bets--then whoever held the
highest combination of cards won all bets. Mr. Crowell was probably describing the earliest form of
poker or its immediate predecessor, the Persian game of Âs.
The first direct reference to poker was found in Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and
Miseries of Gambling (G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843). Green described poker games on a steamer
running between New Orleans and Louisville. His book indicated that poker began in New Orleans
about 1830.
Research on the evolution of poker (outlined on p. 277) revealed that poker descended directly from the
Persian game of Âs Nas and not, as commonly believed, from the French game of Poque, the German
game of Pochen, or the English game of Bragg. But those and other European games soon exerted their
influence on the original game of poker, as shown in the following two diagrams on the derivation and
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