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Video Poker is a modern fusion of classic five-card draw Poker and hi-tech Slots technology, yet its ancestry can probably be traced back to the early 1890s. History records that the Sittman & Pitt company of New York created a mechanical gambling machine, similar to a traditional one-armed bandit, that used five reels to randomly generate Poker hands. Although the machines did not directly payout prizes, the bars where the machines became wildly popular would have their own payout scheme of rewards for different hand values, such as a free beer for a high-value pair.
Whilst the principle of Video Poker can find its origins in those late 19 th Century gaming machines, it wasn’t until the flares-and-Disco-era of the mid 1970s that computer technology became sufficiently cheap to spawn the first true Video Poker consoles in a form that we’d recognise today. Although primitive by current standards, early commercial machines such as International Game Technology’s ‘Draw Poker’ released in 1979, showed the way and helped establish Video Poker as a new attraction at casinos, proving popular with gamers who found the traditional table games a bit daunting.
Today, Video Poker has established itself as a firm favourite on the gaming floors of many real-world casinos. Furthermore its screen-driven interface has also made it exceptionally well-suited to the online environment, and myriads of games can now be enjoyed at hundreds of online casinos, where Video Poker’s relative simplicity (and the lure of some very substantial progressive jackpots) has won it an enthusiastic following amongst the Web’s gaming community.
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