It wasn’t long before they realized that easy money could be made from playing (or perhaps cheating at) poker. Legends were created involving the potent mixture of saloons, poker and guns. Brave gamblers in the old west towns of Dodge City and Deadwood could be found taking their chances with their backs to the walls and their guns at the ready.
Mwisho wa Poker ya Civil War kufikiwa miji ya kale ya Magharibi. Ilikuwa si muda mrefu kabla ya barabara kwamba fedha inaweza kuwa rahisi kutoka kucheza (au labda cheating saa) Poker. Hadithi viliumbwa kuwashirikisha mchanganyiko potent ya saloons, Poker na bunduki. Jasiri gamblers katika miji ya kale magharibi ya Dodge City na Deadwood inaweza kupatikana kuchukua nafasi yao na migongo yao kwa ukuta na bunduki zao tayari.