Talk:Casino hold 'em

Gambling Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Gambling, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Gambling on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GamblingWikipedia:WikiProject GamblingTemplate:WikiProject GamblingGambling articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Gambling To-do:

Current collaborations:

Improve an article to FA

Improve an article to A

Help with the Gambling articles needing attention.
Tag the talk pages of Gambling-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gambling}} banner.
The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated.
Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.

Objections to this page are ill-founded due to a number of reasons including:

Over the last eight years the remarkable rise in popularity of the Poker Variation 'Texas Holdem' was symbiotically associated with its adaptations which found their way into Casinos and On-Line Gaming from the year 2000. These adaptations, being essentially gambler against the House, were examples of the cultural change in attitude not only to poker itself but also to Gambling. Indeed the extent of this climate change famously led to the US Act of Congress which effectively outlawed on-line poker, or at least the transfer of money gambled in 'Cyber-Space'.

The first adaptation of Texas Hold'em to hit live and on-line Casinos as a House Game was Casino Hold'em (devised by Stephen Au-Yeung and marketed by TCS-John Huxley) in 2000. Other House Game variations which followed in later years includes 'WSOP Texas Hold'em Bonus', 'Ultimate Texas Hold'em' and 'Two-Way Holdem Poker'.

The importance of the House Game in helping to develop Global interest in Texas Hold'em Poker should not be under-appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chifat (talk • contribs) 23:05, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did a bit of a cleanup[edit]

Removed sections that weren't encyclopedic, and changed some of the language so we are no longer lifting the whole page from Wizard of Odds. Also, I tried to make the page not require as much knowledge of gambling terms. Prokhorovka (talk) 18:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]