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What card game led you to poker?
After my last post I enjoyed the attention...... Kidding. I am an older player, not near TK mature years, but over 40. My first gambling cards was pontoon at school, if I was not losing/winning dinner money, I was losing my knuckles to snips instead of money. Then graduated to 3 card brag schools at work and in my local working mens club. Back in the 80s, pots could reach £200 and £300 on Thursday nights (payday). Many a day I walked home skint, subbin mum or pals to get out dancing at the weekend.
Card schools, where the hint of skullduggery or playing one big pot, winning and leaving could result in a punch in the pus, (Fife for face) or worse. I came out ahead a few times,but only after plenty of early departures and ears ringing with the "advice" and laughter of the seasoned old boys. Bit like here when caught bluffin again.
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We always played cards in my family growing up. Played Rummy and Pontoon with my Nan. I learnt 3 card and 9 card Brag very young and played for small coins . . even at 7 yrs old I loved it. Have always played Cribbage with my folks, and whenever I visit we get out the Cribb board, usually over a few glasses of something good, and it's fiercely contested :-)
Recently got back into playing Gin Rummy, which is a great game, and you can play online for money (rummyroyal.com)
Jules
Growing up my family played cards alot. Some I may know by different names but in no particular order
Canasta,Bye,Beat jack out of doors,Chase the ace,Newmarket,Pontoon,Find the lady (my brother taught us this game when he returned from the forces where I think it is called Hunt the...........)
Once a year on a managers night out we go to the casino and play BlackJack which I have run well at.
Probably a few others but cannot recall at the moment.
Nick
It began for me with cribbage. I was fascinated with all that 15-2, 15-4, 15-6, 15-8 malarky, & it was good for honing mental arithmetic skills.
"Solo" soon followed, with Grandad Angell, probably the happiest times of my childhood. It was a form of whist, you had to nominate various combinations of "tricks" to win, or, on some cases, lose.
It was a 4 player game, essentially 3 v 1 each time.
Dealing was very odd, you dealt to each player in sequences of 3,3,3 & then 1. The last card was turned face up, & nominated "trumps", & this card was usually deemed to be in the Dealers hand.
You then "bid" for the following.
Solo - Win 5 Tricks
Bundle (aka "Abundance) - win 9 Tricks
Royal Abundance - win 9 tricks in the nominated "trump".
Abundance Declared - Win all 13 tricks.
Misere - LOSE all 13 tricks
Misere Ouverte - Lose all 13 tricks, but you place your hand on the Table FACE UP so everyone else can see it.
We played 1d - 2d - 3d - 4d - 5d etc (d = old penny), & over a 4 hour session rarely won or lost more than a shilling. (12d).
When I started work, of course, I graduated to pontoon & brag, & soon learned that it was not cool to lose a week's wages (£5) in one night.
Many years later, Jen Mason taught me Gin Rummy. We were coming home via Eurostar from the WPT in Paris, which Roland de Wolfe had won, & we played for "Smarties", with each colour having a nominated value. John Kabbaj joined us for a while, too. She busted me for 4 packets of Smarties. She is VERY good at Gin Rummy. In fact, her Online Alias, on all sites, has always been "DjinnRummy", which is some sort of Latin derivation of "Jen" & "Gin".
At work (my proper job before I retired) John Kirkland, my Chairman, taught me Bridge, but I was poo, & he soon gave up in despair. After that, he got me playing Golf. I was poo at that too. He was a great gaffer though, knew how to motivate people with stuff like that, or just share a coffee & a chat on a Friday afternoon. When the Boss takes 5 minutes to say "fancy a coffee?" & you just chatted & chilled for a bit, it was tremendous motivation. He sent me to the USA, San Francisco, in 1987, for a Management Course, I was awarded "Top Student" 2 years running & won the AMA (American Management Association) "Top Overseas Student" 3 years running, mainly because I had learned from John the value of communication, touchy feely, & a "mental" cuddle. Loved that man to bits, idolised him, still do.
Oops, I got carried away there, sorry.
Where was I?
Oh yeah, cribbage, bla bla bla.....
Great thread topic
off topic a little bit we used to while away hours with a fierce game of uckers. Fantastic fun
Played seven card stud at college (with some rules that wouldn't be recognised in the wider world), and then discovered Hold'em through Channel 865 while flicking through the channels late one night. Still don't know if it was the poker or LML that made be tune back in the next night...
Command and conquer
Sim city
Not exactly card games. But strategy games played on a computer.
Tbh poker isn't my favourite computer game but its the only one that I can make money at.