Poker is a card game that uses 52 sets of cards. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown (in some games, the pot is split between the high and low hands), limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed. The origin of this game is still debated, but clearly the game like poker has been played since the 15th century. The Persians were said to play a poker-like game centuries ago. Germans played a bluffing game called Pochen as early as the 16th century; later there was a French version called Poque. The French brought this game to New Orleans, from here the popularity of this game spread to other areas in the USA . Poque soon became known as poker, and the rules were modified during the Civil War to allow cards to be drawn to improve one's hand.
Poker game correlated with the western culture as a means of social interaction or as sustenance for the entertainment and performance skills to play this game, but some are indeed as a means to earn money.
In modern times, as now poker game which played directly gradually being marginalized by online poker games on the internet along with the rapid growth of online poker industry on the internet. People are more interested in playing poker online because they can play without restrictions of time and place together with players around the world.