Video pokers can be said to be one of the most popular gambling machines. 5 card poker is the base of video pokers. Americans have been playing poker since the early 1880s. The first video poker machines didn’t have CGI program, they were represented by regular coin operated machines with cards on drums. Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn introduced these machines in the late 1800s. These machines worked very much like the slot machines you see today. The drums were spun by pulling the handle after inserting a coin. The player would put all his faith in luck as the drums stopped. A person who had a winning card combination received drinks and cigars from the bar. But in 1901, Charles Fey made the next big innovative alteration to the poker machine by adding a 'hold' and 'draw' feature to the already wildly popular machine. Fey’s addition to the poker machine allowed the role of skill to come into play just as much as luck. The modern video pokers appeared a little later. After the invention of computers video pokers began to come about. Video pokers attracted a lot of players nearly at once. Nowadays online casinos offer a great variety of video poker games. Internet Liar's Poker Invention.