[Ads-l] Antedating of "Poker" (Card Gane) by Barry Popik

[Bill Mullins]

Congrats to Barry on finding this.  He has located "seven-up", a much less important game, to 1826

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/185427312/

but it can be pushed back a little further, to 1824:

[1824 Georgia Journal 4 May 3/4  [genealogybank.com]

We present John Jackson, Joseph Ligon, George W. Scott and Joshua G. Moore, for playing with cards a game called six cards seven up, or all-fours, in the store-house at the place where Larkin L. Baldwin formerly lived, on Saturday, some time in the latter part of February, or the first of March -- Elisha Earnest and Wm. Deckin, witnesses. ]

(OED has 1830)

I have previously located euchre to 1810 (also spelled "eucre"):

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2024-June/165556.html

and whist goes back to the 1600s.




(OED has 1830)

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