3 Card Poker Variants:
Category: Poker
After learning a new 3 card based game recently, I felt I should share the basic rules of this game with you.
There seems to be many variations of games which involve making 3 card poker hands. Usually the rules will differ slightly in terms of hand rankings with this type of game. Straights beat Flushes, with the highest Straight being (A,2,3) followed by (A,K,Q) then decending through the rankings in the usual manner. Flushes beat a Pair, and also a High Card, although Three of a Kind is the best possible hand. The other possible hand is the Straight Flush, and that slots in between a regular Straight, and Three of a Kind in terms of strength.
The game we played involved each player having three lives. Three cards were dealt to each player, with another two face up cards in the centre, and one face down. The action would move around the table with each player swapping one card for either of the face up cards, or the ‘mystery’ face down card. If they took the face down card, they had to replace it with their own card also face down. After each player has had one swap, any player thereafter can announce ‘knock’ after they swap a card. The moment this is announced, each remaining player has one swap left, with aim being solely to not turn over the weakest hand at the end. if you turn over the weakest hand, you lose a life.
These different forms of 3 card poker are often fun games to play I feel, and well worthy of introduction into a home game, if your usual game becomes tiresome.
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