I've read before in literature (books, library):
That Texas hold 'em became popular and started on the river boats that helped move gold ore and other supplies along with their lucky miners. Newly rich men would play poker while on the boats and the boat men came up with a better faster version: hold 'em. After it's name the idea was if you had something good, you wouldn't let go. The final card was the river based on their "rivers worth of gold". Then after some time the newly rich men lost so much money they started calling the boat men thieves.
Question: Can anyone help find something on the net backing this up?
wikipedia is completely lacking anything. needs an update with a proper source imo
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