During this time, India saw a big rise in poker players throughout the country. Poker's introduction in India may have been centuries ago, but online poker game rose to popularity during the covid lockdown. Although online poker games are legal in most states in India, it is still considered illegal in the states of Nagaland, Assam, Odisha, Andra Pradesh and Telangana. The game only became famous in the online gaming space after the poker game was classified as a game of skill by the Bangalore High Court in 2007. Games such as Teen Patti and Rummy are now popular in India. The deck of cards (originally made up of 20 cards) was changed to now have 52 cards.Īnd that is how the poker game made its way to India. The game rose to fame in Europe and was then taken to other parts of the world when Europe traded and colonized other countries- including India. It was originally played in the 1900s as an evolution of Seven Card Stud. Texas Hold’em (the most popular version) was not even played the same way it is now. But, everyone seems to agree that it was influenced by a French game called ‘poque’. The origin of the poker game is mysterious, but every country and culture has its own story about where the game came from.
