Talk:Primero

I won't do any editing of the page, but IMO, the notion that Primaero is an ancestor of poker is one of those myths which gains currency through repetition, and is baseless. Poch is clearly the first game which is related to poker, and Primero was more or less obsolete before Poker was invented, and played no role in it's invention. Primero uses four cards, and ignores pairs, being based on flushes and primes, while poker, from it's infancy in Poch, to the the modern era, has always been a game of pairs, based around five-card holdings. There is no line of descent from Primero to Poker, and the one claim it might have to priority in poker ideas is the use of a draw. See David Parlett's poker history pages for some informed commentary on poker's origins. http://www.pagat.com/vying/pokerhistory.html#brag Shakeyourbooty (talk) 20:31, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

If the name is "primero" (spanish word that means first) and it was played with 40 cards (from Ace to 7, J,Q,K) as spanish cards, I don't know why it cannot be said that the origin is Spanish strongly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.221.246.12 (talk) 23:28, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Just curious,how reliable is those modern day construct of those rules? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShanghaiWu (talk • contribs) 15:14, 19 April 2014 (UTC)