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Video Poker is merely a combination of 2 popular forms of wagering: the video slot machine with the poker game. Winning a game of Electronic-Poker requires a combination of gambler ability with good fortune, making it a favorite with players. The game of poker is believed to have originated back in Eighteen Thirty, where it is recorded as having been enjoyed by French migrants residing in New Orleans. Electronic Poker uses a variation of the game named five-card draw poker. Meanwhile, the coin-operated card machines (known affectionately as a "slot machine") was first created in the late 1800’s, with poker machines appearing in San Francisco in 1890. These machines were really basic by today’s standards, utilizing actual cards rather than icons.

The machines declined in interest throughout the very first half of the 20th century. Economic problems mixed with the limited technology of the machines themselves meant that individuals just were not interested in betting anymore. A incredibly simple electronic poker machine was released in Nineteen Sixty-Four but achieved only average success.

It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that the Electronic Poker equipment as we know it today became offered. Advances in technologies meant that a computer chip (CPU) could be used inside the machines to give them a "brain", whilst a monitor transmitted the action to the player.

Meanwhile, gambling house operators searched for new high-profit games, and also the mixture of a video slot machine using the more traditional game of five-card draw poker proved to be a winning combination with the old and new. The very first Video Poker equipment was built in 1976 by Bally Manufacturing. It was only black and white, but a color version was developed just eight months later, by the Fortune Coin Company. Over the next few years, chips started to be less costly to mass produce, and extra gambling establishments introduced Video Poker machines as they became much more financially viable. A version named Draw Poker was released in 1979 by a organization now referred to as IGT, and it achieved amazing success.

Electronic-Poker truly took off from the early 80s where it grew to become common in casinos across Vegas. Bettors discovered themselves much less anxious by a machine than they were when seated at a table looking at others. The reputation of the game has gradually increased during the last 25 years and it can now be discovered in the majority of gambling houses around the world, along with bars and on the Web.