Poker Kiwi

The way poker is understood by the masses is something which has been changing in recent years, as the game spent much of it’s early days being frowned upon and considered immoral. The reasonings behind this were partly due to the notoriety the game developed as being a game for cheaters and gambling addicts. It was not just poker that fell into this category I might add, but gambling as a whole.

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In the earlier days of poker when it was played on the Mississippi riverboats, we can imagine that it may well have been rife with cheating, and this is documented as having been the case. Despite this, the game began to flourish in the past twenty years, at an unprecedented rate, and this for me, shows the beauty and allure of the game itself.

Even though films and people unfamiliar with the game portrayed it in a bad light, still it grew. With the game beginning to become more widely televised in the earlier part of this decade, it has broken free from it’s prison of prejudgment. With the average person who may have been curious about the game beforehand, seeing it played, enjoyed, and kept free of cheating in designated tournament venues, the surge in players was never likely to abate thereafter, I feel.

As we can see from the fact that poker has spread around the world like wildfire in the past few years, you can never keep such a great game down forever. In it’s beginnings, all the game really needed was fairness and guidance as opposed to ill sentiment in the eyes of the people. But no matter how dark a picture was painted of poker (justifiably or not), the simple, exquisite beauty of what the game is all about, could not be forever constrained.