Today, video poker enjoys a prominent place on the gaming floors of many casinos. Throughout the 1980s video poker became increasingly popular in casinos, as people found the devices less intimidating than playing table games. Video poker became more firmly established when SIRCOMA, which stood for Si Redd's Coin Machines (and which evolved over time to become International Game Technology), introduced Draw Poker in 1979. The earliest models appeared at the same time as the first personal computers were produced, in the mid-1970s, although they were primitive by today's standards. Video poker first became commercially viable when it became economical to combine a television-like monitor with a solid state central processing unit. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine. Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. Casino video game A video poker machine at Seven Feathers Casino
