Primero
Sign in to savePrimero (in English also called Primus, in French ', in Italian ' or in Spanish Primera), is a 16th-century gambling card game of which the earliest reference dates back to 1526. Primero is closely related to the game of primo visto (a.k.a. prima-vista, and various other spellings), if not the same. It is also believed to be one of the ancestors to the modern game of poker, to which it is strikingly similar.
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13 sectionsContents
- The origins of Primero
- Etymology
- The gamblers
- Primero and the Tudor dynasty
- Evolution and decline
- Rules of the game
- The play
- English version
- Italian version
- Spanish version
- See also
- References
- External links
Primero (in English also called Primus, in French ', in Italian ' or in Spanish Primera), is a 16th-century gambling card game of which the earliest reference dates back to 1526. Primero is closely related to the game of primo visto (a.k.a. prima-vista, and various other spellings), if not the same. It is also believed to be one of the ancestors to the modern game of poker, to which it is strikingly similar.
The gambling game with this name goes back to the 16th century, being known to Gerolamo Cardano as ', which he thought of as the noblest of all card games, to François Rabelais as ', and to William Shakespeare as primero.