Photos from The Wild West That Were Preserved Forever

Poker's Growth

Soon after casual poker games became a thing, saloons quickly hired poker hands to run tables in order to increase revenue. Smaller saloons still kept the casual poker games going, but the tables with the hands were always more fun to watch.

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