Card Player credits Australian Keith Sloan with developing the speed poker variant.
The Mansion Group subsequently purchased the rights to Sloan's concept Speed Poker, and have since developed and trademarked "Mansion Speed Poker.
"[2] Game play and hand rankings are identical to standard Texas hold 'em.
The differences in rules mostly relate to the time players have to act on their hands.
Each player has 15 seconds to act before his or her hand is ruled dead (or checked if there has been no previous action).