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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1769768, member: 23910"]
I'd argue there's been some changes - in the beginning the only popular games were either five card draw or five card stud (if [I]Deadwood[/I] is to be believed).  Lowball and split pot games weren't invented until around 100 years ago and flop / community card games weren't invented until the 1920s (if [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker"]Wikipedia[/URL] is to be believed).  AFAIK tournament poker (as we know it now) is also a relatively recent invention.  Also poker was commonly played with a stripped deck (containing only 20 cards, for example) in the beginning.  The 52 card deck only became common in later years and now there are very few games (Manilla is the only one I can think of) that use stripped decks.  So the game has definitely evolved and changed in the past 200 years.

Of course poker was a very young game 200 years ago so there's an argument that there's less change to come now that the game is more mature.  Still, who would have thought something like Rush poker would exist even five years ago?
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