当今最流行的赌场桌面游戏的大部分都有着遥远的过去。可以在赌桌上的游戏发现，骰子和卡是最流行的游戏工具，这两个已经在游戏中使用了数百年而没有改变它们的基本性质。

　　当今最流行的赌场桌面游戏产品经过数百万年的进化和不断受到各种古代文化的影响。当今最流行的赌场游戏的大部分形成了殖民地时代这些游戏的迅速发展，因为他们是从西欧出口到新的世界和并在此基础上超越。

　　扑克

　　有着唬人和手层次的游戏已经存在了一千多年。然而，直到最近才出现类似现代扑克的游戏，一般被认为是真正的扑克先行者是Pochen德国游戏。

　　在西班牙（龙阁）和法国（Poque）Pochen游戏，被翻译成“吹嘘”，变化初步的玩法。欧洲殖民者将游戏在新世界中传播更多的领土，美国密西西比河地区通常被认为是现代扑克的故乡，因为这是在19世纪出现的第一个熟悉的游戏卡版。

　　21点

　　21点确切起源已遗失在时间的迷雾中。简单的游戏规则，它可能是在西班牙作家米格尔塞万提斯写于1602年的故事“Rinconete·Cortadillo”中出现，故事详细描述两个卡锐器的功勋，远远超过其第一的记录提及的旧的玩法。

　　塞万提斯故事专指称为一个veintiuna游戏，从西班牙语翻译成21点。塞万提斯小说中的游戏规则，其中包括所有的基本知识，现代的21点，包括发牌卡在这个汇总时，企图达到总共达到21个，并提供了详细的说明。

　　塞万提斯记录的21点游戏规则以来，只有轻微的修订。西班牙玩这个游戏没有10S，当一名玩家在比赛结束后出现了两个卡，则颁发奖金支出，现代21的玩法已流传到美国。

　　轮盘赌

　　现代轮盘游戏的发明在18世纪后期，在法国，第一次提及是在1786年由法国小说家雅克Lablee的《La轮盘》《欧乐怨妇》中的游戏有记录。轮盘游戏被认为是一个早期游戏的融合，以英文轮全威聚为基础的游戏，融合棋盘游戏Hoca和Biribi。

　　看来，游戏不能轻易适应的非正式赌博会议中玩家互相竞争的轮盘游戏，而在法国赌场使用的是专门设计的游戏。到19世纪中叶的轮盘已经发生彻底的演变，德国通过引入一个额外的0口袋里的轮盘设计，将其加入最终触摸到的游戏中去。

　　双骰子

　　骰子可能是最古老的赌博使用的文书。骰子游戏可以追溯到古罗马时代，甚至更早，被认为当时是在士兵之间流行。许多人认为，现代掷骰子游戏，它起源于欧洲军队在十字军东征中玩的游戏。

　　第一个现代掷骰子的前身是古英语的危险游戏。在18世纪，这场比赛由法国赌徒简化，从而引出crapaud游戏。

　　法国的德曼德·维尔Marigny游戏，后传入美国，在那里，它受到美国黑人社区热烈欢迎，然后在路易斯安那州流行。

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　　Casino Game Origins

　　The majority of today’s most popular casino table games have their roots in man’s distant past. Proof of this can be found in the rudimentary nature of the most popular tools of tables gaming, dice and cards, both of which have been used as the basis of games of chance for many hundreds of years.

　　Today’s most popular casino table games are the product of hundreds of years of evolution and the influence of various ancient cultures. During the colonial era the majority of today’s most popular casino games took shape, with these games evolving rapidly as they were exported from Western Europe to the New World and beyond.

　　Poker

　　Games incorporating both bluffing and hand hierarchies have been in existence for over a thousand years. However, games resembling modern poker emerged only recently, with the German game of Pochen generally considered to be the true forerunner of poker.

　　Variations of the Pochen game, which translates into ‘to brag’， were initially played in both Spain （Primero） and France （Poque）。 European settlers in the New World spread the game to additional territories, and the Mississippi region of the United States is generally recognised as the home of modern poker, as this is where the first familiar 5 card version of the game emerged in the 1800s.

　　Blackjack

　　The exact origins of blackjack have been lost in the mists of time. The simple rules that govern the game suggest that it could be far older than its first recorded mention, in Spanish author Miguel Cervantes’ story “Rinconete y Cortadillo”， a story detailing the exploits of two card sharps, written in 1602.

　　Cervantes’ story refers specifically to a game called veintiuna, which translates from Spanish as 21. Cervantes provides detailed descriptions of the rules of the game in the novel, which include all the basics of modern blackjack, including attempting to reach a total of 21, and busting when drawing cards over this total.

　　Only minor amendments have been made to the game of blackjack since being first recorded by Cervantes. The Spanish game was played without 10s in the pack, and the modern practice of awarding bonus payouts when a player draws 21 with two cards, only emerged after the game had been exported to the United States.

　　Roulette

　　The modern game of roulette was invented in France in the late 18th century, with the first recorded mention of the game made by French novelist Jacques Lablee, in La Roulette, ou le Jour, in 1786. The game of roulette is believed to be a fusion of earlier games, the English wheel-based game of Roly Poly and the board games Hoca and Biribi.

　　It appears as if the game of roulette was specifically designed for use in French casinos, as the game could not easily be adapted to informal gambling sessions in which players competed against one another. By the middle of the 1800s roulette had reached the end of its evolution, with Germans adding the final touch to the game by introducing an additional 0 pocket to the roulette wheel design.

　　Craps

　　Dice are probably the oldest of the instruments used in gambling. Dice games are believed to have been popular amongst soldiers, dating back to the time of the Romans and even earlier. Many believe that the modern game of craps has its roots in games played by European armies during the Crusades.

　　The first identifiable precursor of modern craps was the ancient English game of Hazard. This game was embraced and simplified by French gamblers during the 18th century, giving rise to the game of crapaud.

　　Frenchman, Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, is credited with having brought the game to the United States, where it was enthusiastically received and then spread by the African American community in Louisiana.