Why is Texas hold 'em so popular?

Why is Texas hold 'em so popular? - James McManus

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5 ай бұрын

Dig into the history of poker, from the game’s invention in the American South to its explosion of popularity across the world.
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From its earliest incarnations, poker has always been a contest of guile, guts, and gambling. The game first emerged around 1800 in the melting pot of New Orleans, and soon spread up the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers. So, how did this simple game of the American South skyrocket in popularity? James McManus shares how the card game became an international affair.
Lesson by James McManus, directed by Chintis Lundgren.
Learn more about the history of poker with James McManus' book, "Cowboys Full: The story of poker" here: bit.ly/4ajF5Ar
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@TEDEd 5 ай бұрын

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@Smeck-gq1rj 5 ай бұрын

I think it's "Gizmo"

@Smeck-gq1rj 5 ай бұрын

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@Smeck-gq1rj 5 ай бұрын

Keep up the good work and happy new year!

@Tom_277 5 ай бұрын

Just wondering, did poker come from China?

@jamesmcmanus6484 5 ай бұрын

Playing cards were invented in China by courtesans who couldn't afford expensive hand-carved dominoes, so they made cheaper ones out of paper, another Chinese invention. @@Tom_277

@baronvonrhaptzody5440 5 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: As the video shows, “Wild Bill” Hickok was found dead holding a Queen, two Aces, and two eights; what is now referred to as the “Dead Man’s Hand”.

@SunniDae333 5 ай бұрын

That's awesome and really cool that you caught that :)

@myaltaccount4438 5 ай бұрын

m e t a l

@honor9lite1337 5 ай бұрын

Mice 😮

@kurtmatteson4914 5 ай бұрын

Wait, I thought that was the Spades' Royal Flush. Why was that in a magician's book?

@baileysmith1409 5 ай бұрын

Are you sure it was a queen?

@Shawnmell 5 ай бұрын

I died when I saw they used Tony G's quote at the beginning lol

@TheInuyashaGuy 4 ай бұрын

Haha it feels very profound at the start of a Ted ed video

@coldfire39 4 ай бұрын

What's the quote?

@anzesuhadolc2405 4 ай бұрын

@@coldfire39of course i lied. Its poker Phil. What do you think this is? Check The big game and find the moment its hilarious

@star-iv 4 ай бұрын

"Of course I lied. It's poker," said Tony G to Phil Hellmuth once Hellmuth realized that Tony had lied when he said that he hadn't looked at his hand. Tony had AK and won the pot and Hellmuth was salty 😂😅

@hamnohamno4004 3 ай бұрын

I loved it!

@champking4585 5 ай бұрын

That starting quote from tony G after he lied to hellmuth that’s gold

@buzz092 3 ай бұрын

Can't believe the quote is from Tony "Overqualified" G 😂

@liamerickson3427 5 ай бұрын

3:34 dead man’s hand, nice touch

@chamtheman551 5 ай бұрын

The animation is really nice as always. I never knew I would learn so much from poker lore

@containedhurricane 5 ай бұрын

Maybe it was made with Moho?

@ydiotboi 5 ай бұрын

5 sec in, already loving it. To see Tony Gs quote to Helmut here was a real gem

@jasperhalsey8574 5 ай бұрын

me too. I can hear tony saying it too. great quote

@fergaldelaney254 5 ай бұрын

@@jasperhalsey8574 And I can picture Hellmuth's disgusted face after he said it :-)

@macngeeseyt6029 5 ай бұрын

Yes, this is technically education.

@zenedhyr7612 5 ай бұрын

Poker -cheating- is part of -education- statistics studies.

@Irondragon1945 5 ай бұрын

Say, in which way is it not?

@InternetStranger476 5 ай бұрын

@@Irondragon1945 I'm having fun

@Irondragon1945 5 ай бұрын

We truly live in a society where that isn't the norm for education

@baronde8551 5 ай бұрын

I bet ya

@notneean 5 ай бұрын

I had classmates play poker during lunch, we would use snacks as a way to bet, but I didn’t learn about game theory until this summer. I also didn’t learn about its uses in war-far until this video. This was an enjoyable video

@earthling_parth 5 ай бұрын

Technically it's the prisoner's dilemma that inspired the core game theory concepts of studying cooperation vs hostility. I highly recommend to watch the latest near 20 minutes video from Vertasium on this exact topic of game theory and it's uses in geopolitics and other areas of day to day life.

@AwesomeBoysJPTV 5 ай бұрын

Poker is the reason Game Theory was born Matpat: A GAME THEORY

@gynoid9649 5 ай бұрын

Ha yeah! … man I’m gonna miss him

@TheShafronChannel 5 ай бұрын

RIP

@Gracericon 3 ай бұрын

the fact that matthew actually mentioned exactly that

@hesiod_delta9209 2 ай бұрын

@@Gracericon For the uninitiated: MatPat did an episode covering how the handling of economics in Massively Multiplayer Online games can be used as a testing ground for economic ideas in meatspace, and prefaced it with how the series shared a name with a concept in economics. This field was properly acknowledged in that episode. Although mathematical game theory isn't discussed much beyond that gag, I still appreciate the acknowledgement.

@crow6538 5 ай бұрын

As someone who has watched a lot of poker, the quote at the beginning had me in stiches

@sallytrengrove9015 5 ай бұрын

Gotta love tony g ❤

@robertlusthaus1997 5 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking lol, I quote that all the time

@Bestpetlover01 5 ай бұрын

From bluffs to busts, McManus unravels the captivating history of poker in a must-watch!

@damightybenstein 5 ай бұрын

McManus as in Jim "Jack High" McManus?

@joaocardoso6697 5 ай бұрын

lmao, the Tony G quote at the beggining

@KatyPerryShorts01 5 ай бұрын

An absolute poker history gem - the art of bluffing, the strategies of betting, and the stories of busting unfold brilliantly!

@Qudee-pb3kf 5 ай бұрын

As always a really interesting and well made Video!!!

@nocturno7660 5 ай бұрын

I recall my friend group had a poker phase, we only gambled chips without value, but it was really exciting whenever someone had all the chips, made it feel like they were king/queen. We would reset the chip account every weekend or so and start over, the strats becoming more cunning over time

@HipHopKitteh 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely love this wacky style of animation. The reversed bowl at 3:43 is hilarious 😂

@Dicska 5 ай бұрын

It reminds me of Terence Hill's "accidentally" flipped hand from Odds and Evens. If you look up 'Terence Hill Odds and Evens showing hand' on image search, it should be in the first 5 hits. Also: that film is gold.

@tyberiusrex5300 5 ай бұрын

Love that Tony g quote, I can hear it ringing in my ears ❤

@mecahhannah 5 ай бұрын

Awesome as always thanks

@Brian-os9qj 5 ай бұрын

Fun and informative. Thx James

@UpperEchelon8 5 ай бұрын

This is the type of content i like. 🤩

@TheDnegDegen 5 ай бұрын

Getting this defen game some love, I’m here for it ❤

@jasemalhammadi4228 5 ай бұрын

I wish you can make a video about the stand off and rivalry between Britain and France through out history which determined the fate of the modern world beginning with the Norman invasion and throughout the one hundred years war, the seven year war, and the napoleonic wars. The factors the tipped the scale in favor of the British, etc.

@yellowstarproductions6743 5 ай бұрын

Me too

@roberthjuniorsantosmuniz2649 5 ай бұрын

omg, i love how you content is good

@DarkKnight_4669 2 ай бұрын

Dude I love this art style

@dchevron77 5 ай бұрын

Loved this!

@dewahe 5 ай бұрын

Remind me of one of poker game (with story) named Card Shark. The game itself encourage players to play with cheat while doing Poker at France society.

@Crazycolorz5 5 ай бұрын

Yes! And you get to do both cheats mentioned in the video: signaling, and cold decking

@GoPokerPro 5 ай бұрын

Game changed my life! Forever gratefull

@Naumkovich 5 ай бұрын

bruh, awesome Chintis Lundgren work)

@alvarodanielmirandagarcia9555 5 ай бұрын

I remember that game, when Tony G and Phill Hellmuth are playing this hand, when Tony said to Phill "I'm going all in, without looking" and Phill believed him having a bad hand and then Tony Said "OF COURSE I LIED ITS POKER"

@joaocardoso6697 5 ай бұрын

ITS POKER PHIL!

@hasge2124 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely classic. On your bike!

@curtkohlberg2594 5 ай бұрын

Jim McManus is one of the finest writers: I’ve greatly enjoyed all of his books. Positively Fifth Street was an American classic!

@T.C.-st8uz 5 ай бұрын

Weird art. Great video.

@user-cp9id1mj8b 3 ай бұрын

3:16 The Full Tilt chip sounds really hit me in the nostalgia

@sexyand1nowit 5 ай бұрын

I really love this video

@kirbymarchbarcena 5 ай бұрын

TED-Ed has upped the ante with this poker video

@observer4916 5 ай бұрын

i also learned the etymology of "discard" with this video. interesting

@JDLupus 3 ай бұрын

I love both poker and game theory, but hadn't known how important the former was to the conception of the latter!

@franmode0634 5 ай бұрын

I began to play poker on discord and discovered a game full of mysticism, variance but strategy. I always loved games like go and chess but poker has something special. A magical aspect that seems to never amaze because of the different stories that are told every hand. That being said, it is still a betting game, so one has to remain aware of the dangers of not managing your bankroll correctly.

@AndyQuezadilla 5 ай бұрын

Did you mean “cease to never amaze”

@lingtao969 5 ай бұрын

Chatgpt ahh comment

@MrLuckychewy1 5 ай бұрын

Can you elaborate on the mysticism you experienced?

@tomrozea9055 3 ай бұрын

How do you play poker on discord

@KamranUllah-uw8ht 5 ай бұрын

That's great ....Thanks

@Dheeraj5373 5 ай бұрын

Poker origins are believed to stem from different card games in Europe and Asia, gradually morphing into the game we recognize today. The 19th-century United States played a pivotal role in its evolution, with poker gaining traction in various forms, from community games on riverboats to smoky saloons during the Gold Rush era. The game continued to evolve and gain popularity, especially in the 20th century, with variants like Texas Hold'em capturing the imagination of players worldwide. Nowadays online platforms popularize this game 😁. Do you think it's legal to play poker online, isn't it more like a gamble.

@Shivas-cj7vr 5 ай бұрын

Professional hold'em players say it's 70% skill 30% luck. That's why they say you often see the top players at the same final table.

@Dheeraj5373 5 ай бұрын

@@Shivas-cj7vr 🤔😑

@chrismagsmags 3 ай бұрын

I'll never forger when I first started playing Hold em. It was right after the 2002 WSOP when Varkoni won it. My friend had a table and we would go over his house once a week. We were all Soph in HS. Then in 2003 it got huge cause of the late night poker show on the travel channel, and then Moneymaker winning on ESPN. Fun times man.

@Nanireception 3 ай бұрын

I'm here because of that Beyoncé song. From South Africa 🥰 didn't know what a Texas holdem is...

@kraneiathedancingdryad6333 5 ай бұрын

Greetings from Deadwood, SD! The final resting place of Wild Bill Hikok.

@alpacaofthemountain8760 2 ай бұрын

Love the animation style

@ogsdu 3 ай бұрын

not possible to produce this kind of high quality videos on a regular, thanks

@aidenrogatz8071 4 ай бұрын

What an opening quote

@ryanwakeling3658 5 ай бұрын

Is that the "dead man's hand" at 3:34?

@matthewlane932 5 ай бұрын

You forgot Phil after “it’s poker”. The funniest poker interaction I’ve ever seen

@anewfuture 2 ай бұрын

It is the variant with the perfect balance of having the most concealed information, while still having public information. Also, a lot of credit has to go to ESPN's coverage of the main event in 2003. Many people say it was the "Moneymaker effect", but I disagree. While I also started playing poker because of that tournament, I didn't care about him, I just found the coverage of the tournament to be entertaining and I wanted to play.

@Dheeraj5373 5 ай бұрын

As a poker player now I am satisfied 😂

@CMichael2276 3 ай бұрын

I'll be in Las Vegas in June for the World Series of Poker!

@vividist 4 ай бұрын

Starting with that Tony G quote is wild ifykyk 😂

@jasyillnel4402 Ай бұрын

Lady gaga "poker face" vs beyoncé "texas hold'em" Combo:telephone

@adityabhardwaj9854 5 ай бұрын

WE GETTING OUT OF THE POKER TABLE WITH THIS VIDEO😂

@thebooknerd5223 5 ай бұрын

WE GETTING OUT OF DEBT WITH THIS ONE 🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@danomadferit 5 ай бұрын

Juegazo ❤ the perfect game

@powerofk 2 ай бұрын

And regardless of the version of poker, the ranks on hands (from best hand down to worst hand) are based on rarity of natural occurrence (no wild cards/no cheating) in Five Card Stud.

@Halloggg456 25 күн бұрын

great vid

@j.d.kurtzman7333 5 ай бұрын

Triggered by that opening quote haha

@sammieboy1159 3 ай бұрын

Omg… It’s all Game Theory!

@reillywalker195 2 ай бұрын

What separates Poker from Brag is checking. In Poker, you're allowed to check (to not bet but stay in the current hand) if either you made the Big Blind bet and no one raised it or if no one else has bet yet in a subsequent betting round. In Brag, you must either bet or fold every turn, so you can run out of chips fairly quickly if you're not careful.

@kanizfatema6907 5 ай бұрын

Nice🎉

@PikachuMaribu 5 ай бұрын

4:37 i swear everything reminds me of Mat Pat seens he announce he’s going… But that’s just a theory a game theory

@KianD.Johnson 3 ай бұрын

What a quote

@HibiscusFlowerFC 5 ай бұрын

As a professional poker player; I really appreciate this. Giving light to the great game known to man.

@Mizai 5 ай бұрын

Let's go all-in

@CrabbyOldLady 20 күн бұрын

"He called me with Jack high!!" (Old timers will remember that one, and so will James McManus)

@HaughtyHedonist 5 ай бұрын

I Felt It When The Cartoon Character Chased The Other One With A Toolie && Threw His Hat On The Ground 😅😂

@nikitakucherov5028 4 ай бұрын

If you fully shuffle a deck you will get a sequence of 52 cards that has never been duplicated in the past, and should take a million years to be replicated in the future

@DefundtheIRS1776 3 ай бұрын

Did the math on this I think 1 million is a super lowball

@LupineArchive 3 ай бұрын

@@DefundtheIRS1776 is it? i figured with the amount of people playing poker at any given time there would be sure to be a repeat so i figure it'd actually be **lower** than a million idk

@acoupleofschoes 3 ай бұрын

@@LupineArchive The number of unique orderings is 52! = 8 * 10^67. Estimating the 52 card deck originated around the year 1500, gives about 500 years of shuffles, you would need 4.4 * 10^62 unique shuffles each day to get them all by now. That doesn't mean two random shuffles weren't the same, just incredibly unlikely. Going for 10^59 years brings it down to only 2 million unique shuffles per day before a card ordering is repeated. With the number casinos, number of tables/decks in each casino, plus everyone else playing with a deck of cards in the world, that seems very reasonable across the entire world, just have to keep shuffling.

@DefundtheIRS1776 3 ай бұрын

@@LupineArchivejust a lot of guessing but I think since the start of the 52 card deck there hasn’t been 2 identical shuffles, in theory.

@simplebutpowerful 2 ай бұрын

@@acoupleofschoes let's give a well-overestimated 100 shuffles per person on the planet per day, that'd be 800 billion or 8 x 10^11 shuffles per day. so we need 10^56 days - or 2.7 x 10^53 years - to get a duplicated shuffle. That's, what, 270 thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion years? Better yet, let's say each person on the planet was running a supercomputer that could churn out 1 million shuffles per second. Then that'd be 8 billion x 1 million x 86,400 shuffles per day = 6.9 x 10^20 shuffles per day, requiring 1.2 x 10^47 days or 3 x 10^44 years to cover them all - that's 300 million trillion trillion trillion years. A perfect NCAA bracket will be made trillions of times over before a random shuffle is duplicated. You can bet on it.

@kevinolsta9955 3 ай бұрын

I really think what made Texas Holdem a great game for tournaments and television is the fact that when a small pair vs 2 high cards get all in before the flop it is very close to a coin flip for who will win the hand

@damie9412 5 ай бұрын

Nice

@ELDuderino597 2 ай бұрын

One of my favourite quotes regarding the popularity of texas hold 'em is that 'everyone thinks they can play'.

@thomasyates3078 2 ай бұрын

Everyone can play, but most people play badly. The beauty of the game is that the odds are mostly still pretty good for the player that's behind, so bad players will still win more than they would in most other games. That keeps them in. The winning player works out how to use that information over large time scales.

@beanman9760 Ай бұрын

4:36 hey I’ve seen this one before!

@haze300 4 ай бұрын

We called it "Pusoy" in the Philippines and it's really popular especially during funerals (lamay).

@AdamHirsch Ай бұрын

gone with the wind was mentioned in because of Winn-Dixie

@PriKave 5 ай бұрын

fun fuct: term river (last round of betting) is called river because on the river pot is biggest so it was also most lucrative place for cheating if they catch someone they throw him in to to river(as mention was often played on the ships )

@6thwilbury2331 5 ай бұрын

James McManus? HE CALLED ME WITH JACK HIGH! I'll see myself out. Kidding aside, Cowboys Full is a pretty cool book. Check it out if you're at all interested in the pokers.

@jamesmcmanus6484 5 ай бұрын

I had queen high!

@6thwilbury2331 5 ай бұрын

@@jamesmcmanus6484 The original "honey, he called me with Q-T" 😀

@OmarFarouk1999 5 ай бұрын

حلو الحلقة بتحكي عن تاريخ poker و انه و ارتباطه بعلم الرياضيات بغض النظر عن انه ضياع للمال،اتمنى تترجم الي العربي

@gojosatoru1442 5 ай бұрын

لعبة ممتعه

@4xTrades 4 ай бұрын

I loveee poker ❤

@SimonJokes 3 күн бұрын

TONY G A LEGEND !!! 🦅🦅🦅

@kdante6639 3 ай бұрын

It's the epitome of all competition

@alin_ilies 5 ай бұрын

would you do a special episode when the channel reaches 20 milione subscribers?

@psycologo121 5 ай бұрын

I'm still waiting for the next patch to balance the poker meta

@lilysenpai8604 2 ай бұрын

I didn’t know what “Texas Hold ‘Em” was, apart from Beyoncé. I always had a hunch it was a game she was referring to. The more ya know, I hate lottery anyways. Lmae 😂😂

@jtaquazthegoat7173 Ай бұрын

Texas hold ‘em is by no means the lottery it is a game of more skill than luck if you actually know how to play

@IncognitoModeUser 5 ай бұрын

At the end, "but heeeey that's just a theory, a GAME THEORY. Aaaand cut"

@NL-ws5fv 5 ай бұрын

Okay, interesting. But I'm now curious about the earlier games played in France and England.

@diorynovis 5 ай бұрын

All in

@lukegtempleton4257 2 ай бұрын

I would say that approximately 20 seconds of the 5:42 address the question "Why is Texas Hold 'em so popular?"

@NehaSingh-ld3wc 5 ай бұрын

Which app you make this type video its amezing

@Aplex21 Ай бұрын

With out watching the video I'll take a guess. It's TV. You have the cards on the table that the audience can see and they only have to keep track of 2 cards in each players hand. Much easier than other forms where there's 5-7 card in each players hand. Also flipping those cards out adds suspense and drama

@mrx7181 3 ай бұрын

it’s ironic that the quote “of course i lied… it’s poker.” came from a hand where Tony G bluffed with the goods. Tony G said multiple times that he hadnt looked at his cards (he did look but no one saw him) so that his opponent Phil Hellmuth would put all of his chips in the pot. It was like a bluff inside of a bluff.

@matthewilinykh6266 13 күн бұрын

I love the Tony G quote

@estheticterrestrial 5 ай бұрын

*Like the wind.*

@JohnnyH-om3yx 2 ай бұрын

You should make a brief history of solitaire

@keylimecookies 5 ай бұрын

Bang love my new obsession

@webguy943 5 ай бұрын

Poker is life

@l88ch3r 5 ай бұрын

Buff sailor cat disturbs me, and I'm not sure why.

@bgd34000 4 ай бұрын

2:14 the boat should be going in reverse!

@danielmorawek6532 5 ай бұрын

Could someone please show the horse @3:51 to my arts teacher as evidence that I drew them anatomically accurate all along?

@marymaidamilah4399 22 күн бұрын

4:35 Where have I heard this before?

@cmd31220 2 ай бұрын

Poker is the ultimate American game. A man can walk in with nothing and walk out with a fortune simply by his own skill, luck, and sheer force of will.