The company was founded in 1997 by an inventor named Ernie Moody who had an idea about video poker games while playing cards at his coffee table in Colorado.  His idea involved dealing and playing more than one hand of cards at a time.  After dealing a few hands of video poker, you would review and select cards from the bottom hand.  The other hands would be face down.  Cards you liked in the first hand would be duplicated in the other hands and then using a unique deck of cards for each hand, you would draw and complete all hands.  All hands would be played simultaneously so if you started with three of a kind in the bottom hand, it would be duplicated into the other hands giving you a lot more chances of getting one or more four of a kinds.  This added a level of excitement and anticipation never seen before in traditional video poker.    

           Mr. Moody’s invention was coolly received by the gaming manufacturers.  In many cases, it was flat out rejected.  Undeterred, Mr. Moody persevered with his invention.  Eventually, International Game Technology (IGT) licensed his multi-hand poker invention.  Thus Triple Play Poker was born and the video poker industry changed forever.  Triple Play was introduced to casinos in 1997 and players lined up to play the game.  The casinos could not keep enough of them on the floor and IGT had to race to keep up with demand. 

           Today, working together with our exclusive manufacturing and distribution partner IGT, Action Gaming has brought  dozens of video poker games to market with more than 17,000 games in the field at any given time across North America.   Some of our most popular games include Triple Play Draw Poker, Five Play Draw Poker, Spin Poker, Hundred Play Draw Poker, Super Times Pay Poker and Five Play Multi-Strike Poker. For a complete list, please visit Our Games section of this site.  You can also play many of our games on this site or you can go to videopoker.com to do so.
   
           Please note that Action Gaming is a game invention company and that we DO NOT sell or manufacture machines.  Our games are made available through our friends at IGT (www.igt.com) directly to casinos.  If you are a licensed casino and interested in our IGT-distributed products, please click here.  If you are a private citizen and want to buy a slot machine, or a video poker machine , you will need to find a company in the used machine business.  We recommend you use your favorite search engine to find a reseller or check e-bay. 


 For further information about the company, please contact Mike Fields at (702) 737-7005 or at mike.fields@actiongaming.com.