The word ‘poker’ has a tangled history all of its own; it comes from the French word ‘poque’, which itself is a variant on the German word ‘pochen’, which simply means “to knock”.
Poker ya neno ‘ina historia tangled wote wa peke yake, ni linatokana na neno la Kifaransa’ poque ‘, ambayo yenyewe ni lahaja ya neno la Kijerumani “pochen’, ambayo kwa kifupi maana yake” hodi. ”