So if you're watching poker on TV, or if you hear about your friends doing a poker night, chances are the game is Texas Hold 'em.
That televised event gained so much attention that Hold 'em almost immediately replaced Seven Card Stud as the most popular game played in casinos, and it remains so to this day. Texas Hold 'em is the most widely played variant of poker, whose popularity exploded in part due to Chris Moneymaker becoming the first person to win the World Series of Poker after qualifying through an online poker tournament, in 2003.
