Another story details that many people claim they played the game under a different name on a cruise ship going to Aruba, before it was known as Caribbean Stud.
The true story of how the game as it is played today came into being goes back to 1987 when a gambler named James Suttle learned the game from a down on his luck poker player while playing Texas Holdem at Binion's Horseshoe on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.