Has anyone played a game similar? Better than OFC!

[exstream]

4 people(can be played with more)
Each player gets 3 cards each.
Each player puts in an ante, 50p we shall say.
£2 in the pot.
Each player looks at their hand and going by 3 card poker hands, decides whether they believe their hand is good enough to beat the other players.
Should 2 people play their hand, they will face off against eachother, the winner will claim the pot. The loser will put into the next pot, whatever the pot from the last round was, so £2, plus their own ante. Every other player will add their ante again.
£4 in the pot this time.
Let's say, 4 people make a claim for the next pot, 3 people will lose and will therefore add £4 in to the next pot plus antes, making a pot of £13.
If one person makes a claim for the pot(happens when nobody has a good hand/the pot is big, people are more wary), that one person will win the pot and everything will start afresh.
If nobody makes a claim for the pot, each player will add either a fraction of what the pot was/or the full pot, if 4 players, it could be decided that when no pot is claimed, each player will add a quarter, sometimes, each player could add the full pot. The pots get massive. So fun.

[dino1980]

Sounds like guts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guts_(card_game)
Played it once for a magazine feature based on poker type games you could play in the pub if you didn't have chips and it definitely created the biggest pots of the night.

[TL900]

Better than OFC!

claim.

[welsh1980]

4 people(can be played with more)
Each player gets 3 cards each.
Each player puts in an ante, 50p we shall say.
£2 in the pot.
Each player looks at their hand and going by 3 card poker hands, decides whether they believe their hand is good enough to beat the other players.
Should 2 people play their hand, they will face off against eachother, the winner will claim the pot. The loser will put into the next pot, whatever the pot from the last round was, so £2, plus their own ante. Every other player will add their ante again.
£4 in the pot this time.
Let's say, 4 people make a claim for the next pot, 3 people will lose and will therefore add £4 in to the next pot plus antes, making a pot of £13.
If one person makes a claim for the pot(happens when nobody has a good hand/the pot is big, people are more wary), that one person will win the pot and everything will start afresh.
If nobody makes a claim for the pot, each player will add either a fraction of what the pot was/or the full pot, if 4 players, it could be decided that when no pot is claimed, each player will add a quarter, sometimes, each player could add the full pot. The pots get massive. So fun.

Sounds a little like 3 card brag (banned from all our clubs)

[Tal]

Yes, that's Guts.

Guts < Bastard Brag as a multiplayer game.

Remember in 3 card games that the hand rankings are different:

Prial
Running flush ("on the bounce", "biker")
Run
Flush
Pair
High card

[edgascoigne]

Yes, that's Guts.

Guts < Bastard Brag as a multiplayer game.

Remember in 3 card games that the hand rankings are different:

Prial
Running flush ("on the bounce", "biker")
Run
Flush
Pair
High card

Three threes, then three aces, then running down accordingly. Then it's a running flush, a run, and then a pair. An open man can't see blind man, and it will cost you twice the ante to see your opponent. Now then fellas, you all know the rules, so don't fack around.

Name that film...

[Tal]

Lock stock?

[atdc21]

3 card brag was main game in pubs b4 poker boom.
the game described isnt 3 card brag tho.
3 card can some times get well out of hand, seen punch up at wedding with it lol

[tikay]

Lock stock?

......is correct.

Loved that film.

[Marky147]

Used to have a lot of 3card schools at Dad's club back in the 90s, but everyone started blind in those games.

[Marky147]

Yes, that's Guts.

Guts < Bastard Brag as a multiplayer game.

Remember in 3 card games that the hand rankings are different:

Prial
Running flush ("on the bounce", "biker")
Run
Flush
Pair
High card

Used to play Bastard Brag a lot in the pub on a Sunday afternoon, along with Shoot.

[mondatoo]

Lock stock?

......is correct.

Loved that film.

Snatch though.

[tikay]

Lock stock?

......is correct.

Loved that film.

Snatch though.

Ahh, so close. Another film I really enjoyed.

[edgascoigne]

Lock stock?

......is correct.

Loved that film.

Snatch though.

Ahh, so close. Another film I really enjoyed.

It was indeed Lock Stock, a film I must have watched around forty times on VHS - a formative part of my mala educacion.

[Tal]

Yes, that's Guts.

Guts < Bastard Brag as a multiplayer game.

Remember in 3 card games that the hand rankings are different:

Prial
Running flush ("on the bounce", "biker")
Run
Flush
Pair
High card

Used to play Bastard Brag a lot in the pub on a Sunday afternoon, along with Shoot.

Shoot is another cracker