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Wikipedia's not the absolute authority on anything, but here's what it says there:
The name of the game likely descended from the Irish Poca (Pron. Pokah) ('Pocket') or even the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to brag as a bluff' lit. 'to knock'
I'd check out en.wikipedia.org and search "Poker" for lots of interesting information, including that poker may not actually be based on the games mentioned above.
The name of the game likely descended from the Irish Poca (Pron. Pokah) ('Pocket') or even the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to brag as a bluff' lit. 'to knock'
I'd check out en.wikipedia.org and search "Poker" for lots of interesting information, including that poker may not actually be based on the games mentioned above.
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I had never heard that bit about it maybe coming from Irish.
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