You could visualize how the word Texas Holdem came to being. The history below will give you a glue of its origin and the individuals involved in making it come to actuality. There is less information about Texas Holdem's invention, but the Legislature of Texas legally identifies Robstown, Texas, as the origin of the game, dating it to the onset of the 1900s.
In the 1900s, poker game spread throughout Texas like a bushfire, being the game played by numerous people then. By 1967, Amarillo Slim, Addington Crandell, and Brunson Doyle were the famous gamblers and card players in Texas. They formed a group and introduced Texas Holdem in Las Vegas that same year, making themselves the first inventors of the game in that area.
In the year 1967, the Texas Holdem introduction was successful, but another problem emerged. The aces were running low, and the users decided to change ace high from its innovative form. According to Addington Crandell one of the inventors, he had seen the game in 1959, but that time, it was named Holdem. Crandell thought that Holdem would become a real game someday, and his dream came through in 1967.
When Texas Holdem began, it was more of a rational man’s game with an allowance of betting only four sequential times. This then could bring a difference from the draw poker game, where you could bet only two times. Previously, Golden Nugget Casino was the talk of the town, whose services ran for years, without competition. It was the only casino in Las Vegas but had oily sawdust all over the floors, making it unbearable for high-end professionals.
In 1969, the inventors of Texas Holdem invited the professionals of Las Vegas to play the game at the entrance of Dunes Casino located in Las Vegas Strip. The professionals enjoyed the game, and resolved to be playing Texas Holdem to replace Golden Nugget Casino. This was a great milestone for this game, giving it prominence across all the Las Vegas streets.
Tom Moore had a plan of establishing a convention for the gambling fraternity in 1969. However, his plans failed and he decided to feature Texas Holdem as one of the games in the second yearly gambling community convention. In 1970, two diplomats, Jack Binion and Benny changed the gambling community to World Series of Poker. Jack and Benny also changed the location of the event to their casino after successfully acquiring rights from the authorities to undertake their actions.
The actions of Binion and Benny drove Tom Thackrey, a journalist to suggest that the foremost event of the community tournament should be nothing less than Texas Holdem. They agreed and since then, Texas Holdem is the chief event. In 1972, the game received eight entrance, which was a bit low as expected. However, the rose to a hundred in 1982, and in 1991, it was over two hundred, above the expectations of the inventors.
Since then, there has been the publication of books to revolutionize and popularize the game. The books include; Poker guide by Doyle Brunson, the biggest game in town by Al Alvarez, and Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. To date, Texas Holdem is one of the supreme poker games.