BRAG

OBJECTIVE OF BRAG:  Win the money in the pot by remaining in the hand and/or having the highest ranking hand.

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 4-8 players

NUMBER OF CARDS: 52-card decks

RANK OF CARDS: A,K,Q,J,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2

TYPE OF GAME: Gambling

AUDIENCE: Adult

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INTRODUCTION TO BRAG

Brag, or Three Card Brag, is a descendant of the Spanish game Primero. It is very similar to the popular card game in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Trinidad Teen Patti, which means literally in Hindi ‘three cards’.

Brag is popular British gambling game which employs the skill bluffing to deceive other players.

There are several variations of brag which use anywhere between 4 and 13 cards, although 6,7,9, and 13 card brag have a very different game mechanism.

THREE CARD BRAG

Set Up

Before starting the game, players must agree upon:

• The amount of the initial stake or the ante – a forced bet each player must make before each deal.
• Minimum and maximum bet amounts – a bet the first player must make to stay in the hand.
• The limit on how much bets can be raised, if any.
• Any variations on the traditional rules.

Hand Rankings (from high to low)

• PRIAL: Prial is short for “pair royal.” Three cards of equal rank, for example, K-K-K
• RUNNING FLUSH: Three cards in sequences of the same suit. A-2-3 is a viable run and actually the highest, despite A being the highest ranking card. A-K-Q is the second highest run/running flush. 2-A-K is not a valid flush or run.
• RUN: Three cards in sequence of any suit. Running flushes beat all runs.
• FLUSH: Three cards, not in sequence, of the same suit. For example, if all cards are spades, 7-10-Q is a flush.
• PAIR: In a three card hand, a pair is having any two cards of equal rank. For example, A-A-J.
• HIGH CARD: A three card hand that doesn’t form any of the above combinations relies on high card- that is the highest ranking card. For example, in this hand: 5-10-K, K is the high card.

Suits are not ranked so equivalent hands are possible.

The Ante & The Deal

Prior to each deal, players must agree upon an ante. The ante must be paid by each player to the pot before the deal can begin. The deal and the play passes clockwise, the deal passes to the left with each hand.

Before the first deal, the dealer shuffles the cards. After, the cards are only shuffled if the last hand was ‘seen’ and was won by a Prial. For the most part, cards are not shuffled between hands.

The dealer passes each player three cards, face-down, one at a time. Players have the option to look at their cards, but they do not have to. However, a player’s cards must remain secret from all other players in the game. There is only one exception to that, which is when the betting round ends with a “see.”

Betting

After the cards have been dealt betting starts with the player to the left of the dealer. The first bettor has two options: fold (throw down their cards and sacrifice their ante to the pot), or bet anywhere between the minimum and maximum amounts. If all but one player folds as betting continues the remaining player wins the pot and a new hand dealt.

If a player bets, the following players must either fold or make a minimum bet equal to the previous bet. Players may raise the bet, but it must be within the limit decided upon mutually by all other players.

In the event there are only two players left in the game, and all others have folded, there is another option available. Players may see the other’s cards. To see a player must pay twice the amount of the previous. If you pay to see another player’s card, they expose their hand first. If your hand is better than your opponents, expose it to collect your winnings in the pot. If your hand is worse or equal to your opponents, it is not necessary to reveal your hand, they win the pot. Reminder, if hands are equal, the player who paid to see loses the hand.

Betting does not end until all but one player drops out or there are two players left and one pays to see the other. 안전토토사이트

Here is an example of turn of betting in a four player game, note there is no equalizing of bets as in Poker:

Player A bets 3 chips, Player B bets 3 chips, Player C folds, Player D bets 3 chips, Player A must bet at least 3 chips to stay in the hand.

As a rule of etiquette, never fold out of turn.

Running out of Money

Brag is rarely played with table stakes, as in Poker. Table stakes means players keep all the money they are playing without on the table, in Brag players keep much of their money in their pockets. However, there is typically a minimum players must have on the table.