This article comes from the PokerNews archives and originally published on April 04, 2017. It has been updated as a feature during PokerNews' Texas Week.
Generally speaking, just about all of the cultural expressions of poker considered thus far in this series have featured the game's earliest and most popular variants — draw and stud.
We've discussed poker games in 19th-century saloons, on steamboats and in frontier towns. We've considered stories of gunslingers, politicians and soliders playing poker, including some famous fictions and literary treatments of the game as well as early strategy primers and applications of the game to business and military planning.