poka

GREEK POKER

Poka in Greece is called all the games of the family of poker. There are lots of combinations and variations. The Greek imagination has no end in the way of playing, in bets and also in the names of the variations.
Most of the games of poker-poka are the Greek transfer of the American variations of poker that are played in Europe. There are variations in poka that simply have different name while the rules are the same, according to which place of Greece you are.

The word poka comes from the trying of rendering the word poker by the Greeks to how they Americans pronounce it. Pokah though was the initial old name of poker. It is very characteristic a song about poker of Charilaos Kritikos from a recording of 1939, in New York, in which the greekenglish have a leading part.