Do people still play cards anymore?

gramar

Are card games still popular and do people still meet up to play?
I remember a groups of us getting together for games of poker (5 card draw) pontoon and 25's and losing track of time as games went on for hours (for those who didn't get cleaned out). I remember scraping coppers together to have a few pence to bet with and always thinking that today would be the day.

Tokyo

It's still pretty common in my home place (the sticks). Local pub, every Sunday night. Parish priest would preach about humility on Sunday morning, fleece you in a game of 25 that evening.

MyStubbleItches

mike_ie wrote: »

It's still pretty common in my home place (the sticks). Local pub, every Sunday night. Parish priest would preach about humility on Sunday morning, fleece you in a game of 25 that evening.

We play it a lot when visiting my in-laws (25) but here at home the smoking ban really killed it off in the local pubs.

Winterlong

I miss those mini-tournaments in a mates house. Betting with small change. You would be delighted if you went home £5 in profit despite having spent double that on cans and pizza.

None of my crowd do that anymore but I did see a poker club meet up in our local pub. They were properly organised with chips etc. About 20 players and same number of onlookers. All drinking minerals - so they must have been serious.

mud

Yeah every now and then I go through phases of playing cards. Not in the pub or for money, just for the buzz. I like playing Sh1thead and Begger my neighbour

jester77

I have a few card games I play with my 3 year old, he's already a bit of a shark

I also have a monthly poker and whiskey night with a few colleagues after work

Shlippery

25 is the game of choice, it's rare we get a night that suits all the gang, but when we do, it's some laugh.

Can't beat it. **** food, few beers and 25.

MrMorooka

I like playing the games themselves, but the whole gambling atmosphere around it puts me off.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

We play it a lot when visiting my in-laws (25) but here at home the smoking ban really killed it off in the local pubs.

The smoking ban killed card games? I worked in 2 pubs at the time of the ban, one in a small town and the other in a village. The smoking ban had no effect on business what so ever, the pubs were still jam packed.

DaraDali

Play 110 every week now Every pub I used to go too would have a card game, sadly nowadays people just don't know how to play.

If you have never played 110, Its like 45 but you get to choose the suit of the cards, mad laugh

TerrorFirmer

We play this a lot, and it has the advantage that virtually everyone we know already knows how to play it. It's pretty much the only card game I know how to play.... other than snap.

Mostly played with a few pints.

edit: Had to change the link as boards blocked it.

Graces7

I play card games online. Mastered Flower Garden Solitaire..

Your Face

I used to play 25 down the pub but it became, bizarrely, quite ostentatious.

uch

We still play a game of Poker in the Boozer the odd sunday, fiver a head, a game lasts about 40 mins

Potential-Monke

I still play some shithead with a few of the lads, and there's usually a good game of Cards Against Humanity once a month, although i don't know if that can classed as a card game.

Neon_Lights

My new year's resolution was to play a game of poker each week. I'm keeping to it, ty Fitzwilliam card club and d1 club

harry Bailey esq

jester77 wrote: »

I also have a monthly poker and whiskey night with a few colleagues after work

If that was me I'd be forced to change jobs monthly....

MyStubbleItches

Jayde Delicious Ladle wrote: »

The smoking ban killed card games? I worked in 2 pubs at the time of the ban, one in a small town and the other in a village. The smoking ban had no effect on business what so ever, the pubs were still jam packed.

Yes, in my local it certainly did. There were 10-15 people who could be relied on to play so any given weekend there would usually be enough for a game. One or two would always be smokers and eventually the non smokers didn't bother playing as they were sick of fag breaks, forgotten scores, etc.

Witchie

Any time there are 3 or more of us at my parents house the cards get pulled out and we play a game called Black Jacks. Its not the 21 black jacks. It has loads of rules and is the best craic.

My dad has made up or used old sayings all the time during games, such as, if the cards run out and need to be reshuffled someone is asked to "box" them. The pile of cards is referred to as the "bun" and if you lose you get "scrabbed" where all the other players playfully scratch you (gently).

So we do Kris Kindle in our house and my youngest son got his grandad and got him a packet of cards with 10 of our family sayings on the back of each card. They are epic. Best. Present. Ever.

Usually a card game would break out on a Sunday night after tea which dad always makes of home chips and salad......aw I miss those days.

pauliebdub

There's a group of lads at work who play cards at lunchtime obviously without gambling, looks a bit unusual. Lunch is an hour long so it can get boring.

ScumLord

Does http://worldofsolitaire.com/ count? Crescent is a good one.

Samuel T. Cogley

The rise of Poker as a 'spectator sport' would seem to suggest it's still popular.

kieran.

DaraDali wrote: »

Play 110 every week now Every pub I used to go too would have a card game, sadly nowadays people just don't know how to play.

If you have never played 110, Its like 45 but you get to choose the suit of the cards, mad laugh

110 now that's a blast from the past used to play it nightly for about 10 years!!!

I still play 25 weekly now in the local.

Noddyholder

No one play Dawn anymore ? It was a huge game played by lots back in the day.

Dave_The_Sheep

Our Scout leaders have some vicious games of Sh*thead (a variation of it) whenever we're away on camp and the kids are asleep. Probably my favourite game out there.

Family wise, we still play Black Spot at family gatherings. No wiki page for that, but it's not dissimilar to 25, though in Black Spot you have to guess the number of tricks you are going to get, so you can play to lose hands if that's what's best. Quite compelling.

Oh, wow. You can't even encase "sh*t" in a URL and it'll be modified. Well done, Boards.

cbyrd

25's, 110, poker, rummy, different kinds of patience are all played in my house. Christmas and long weekends in either parents house's can start a tournament and while I look like a messer, I've been known to fleece a few people

B.A._Baracus

Pub poker was booming there a few years ago. Used to play myself as a guy ran different nights in different locals where I live.

Waste of money to be honest. But I don't know how he got away with it. He had big banners outside the pubs advertising them. You know yourself there is no such thing as a 'license' to run pub poker.

I stopped playing in 2011. I later heard that by 2013 the guy running them was working in another country and left with all the 'big tournament' fund too. What do you expect like.

Actually as I wrote the above I paused for a few minutes and looked back. Was madness alright as I was playing a couple of nights a week in them. Absolute waste of money.

tomofson

The gender card and the race card are the common cards played these days.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jayde Delicious Ladle wrote: »

The smoking ban killed card games? I worked in 2 pubs at the time of the ban, one in a small town and the other in a village. The smoking ban had no effect on business what so ever, the pubs were still jam packed.

He means it killed the custom of men holding card games on a regular basis, not the pub's overall business.

Old fellas like to chain smoke during card sessions. If you can't smoke you may as well not play the bloody game at all.

weekday

AAAKK

Lorelli!

Noddyholder wrote: »

No one play Dawn anymore ? It was a huge game played by lots back in the day.

Does that require more than two players?

My parents use to play Dawn together but I think they changed the rules up a bit so they could play with only two. I use to keep the score. I never knew how to play it though, just use to sit and watch them
It was funny because they use to wind each other up

Right2Write

We play in phases - a game called Capitalism was all the rage for a while. Trick game, where the winners get to stay on the top of the pile and the losers get screwed. If you're on the bottom, you get to try and climb the greasy pole. If on top, you defend your position and tread on the weaker players. Hark back to the Celtic Tiger years etc.

SEPT 23 1989

Five and seven hand rummy when it was raining and we couldnt get outside on the summer holidays

Simple and better times

ambro25

We play cribbage regularly, and I play it every now and then for money in a local Working Mens Club (I'm in Yorkshire).

Post-dinner Belote is mandatory whenever we visit family in France.

Although I play both 'with partner' (4 player game), I still prefer Belote to Cribbage, it's more cerebral and tactical (there's more ways to eventually make good out of a random hand).

r93kaey5p2izun

Switch is very popular round here.

mud

Witchie wrote: »

Any time there are 3 or more of us at my parents house the cards get pulled out and we play a game called Black Jacks. Its not the 21 black jacks. It has loads of rules and is the best craic.

My dad has made up or used old sayings all the time during games, such as, if the cards run out and need to be reshuffled someone is asked to "box" them. The pile of cards is referred to as the "bun" and if you lose you get "scrabbed" where all the other players playfully scratch you (gently).

So we do Kris Kindle in our house and my youngest son got his grandad and got him a packet of cards with 10 of our family sayings on the back of each card. They are epic. Best. Present. Ever.

Usually a card game would break out on a Sunday night after tea which dad always makes of home chips and salad......aw I miss those days.

I used to play that game a lot but I can't remember the rules. If you are ever at a loose end and fancy jotting the rules down and sending them to me I would be so grateful

No rush, just sometime I'd love to play a game of Blackjack.

My local has don night every Thursday, although it is a fairly old crowd. I know poker kicked off in a huge way here a years ago, has that died down now? I remember a lot of bars would have a Texas hold em night before, haven't seen them advertised in a while though

Cake of Tremendous Power

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

My local has don night every Thursday, although it is a fairly old crowd. I know poker kicked off in a huge way here a years ago, has that died down now? I remember a lot of bars would have a Texas hold em night before, haven't seen them advertised in a while though

I saw your username and just had to comment.

I love it!

Jack the Stripper

Used play cards, got sick of old fellas giving out. No hopers sexually repressed pensioners.

J Mysterio

When my family get together we always play cards. I used to be part of poker groups in Cork and Dublin but moved away, I'm sure they're still going. I'd like to join another group.

karaokeman

Think your going to have to ask someone at a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament that one.

DrPhilG

Have a poker game on Saturday night, been a few months since the last one.

I made my own table back in the poker boom a few years back. Damn fine job it is too even if I do say so myself.

Unfortunately the bloody cat ripped the shlt out of the vinyl at one end so some repairs are needed.

FanadMan

My father and a regular school play Solo twice a week. They've been doing this for over 30 years. Sad thing is that when the older players die (my father included), the game will end because there is nobody new playing. They would love new players to sit in, even for a few hands but nobody wants to learn. I've tried to learn it but haven't the patience to sit playing for 3-4 hours.

Mackman

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I still play some shithead with a few of the lads, and there's usually a good game of Cards Against Humanity once a month, although i don't know if that can classed as a card game.

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Our Scout leaders have some vicious games of Sh*thead (a variation of it) whenever we're away on camp and the kids are asleep. Probably my favourite game out there.
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Oh my god!! ****head was taught to me and my friends about 15 years ago by another friend after he learned it while he was living in Wales. We played it all the time in the pub. I have never met anyone else who knew it or even heard of it.

I've been teaching it to people for years, fantastic game. You can have 30 cards in your hand playing against someone with 4, and you can still win.

Witchie

mud wrote: »

I used to play that game a lot but I can't remember the rules. If you are ever at a loose end and fancy jotting the rules down and sending them to me I would be so grateful

No rush, just sometime I'd love to play a game of Blackjack.

Ok the rules we play are as follows:

Pick up 5 if someone throws a blackjack at you. 2 Blackjacks =10. You can deflect it with a red Jack though and send back to the person who threw it at you and they can return the favour with another red or a black.

Ace - choose any suit

10 - change direction - 2 tens mean you get to have another go and when it gets down to just 2 people playing, every 10 means another go for the person throwing them.

8 - next person misses a go. This can add up to missing up to 4 goes if all 8's are played.

2- pick up 2, again can be in multiples.

You can throw as many of the same number as you want in a go - i.e. I could throw three 4s out as long as my first 4 is the same suit as the card before or the suit announced by an ace thrower before me.

When you are down to your last card, pair, trips, quads, you must announce it before the next person plays or you pick up a card. If you make a mistake, you pick up a card, if you can't go, you pick up a card and you can't finish on one of the trick cards so if you do, you must pick one up from the "bun".

First person out is the "Champ" and must run around the room shouting "who's the champ" over and over. Then the game continues until there is a loser who gets "scrabbed".

diomed

Poker is still played
Upcoming local events are the Irish Open on 27th March (€500k), Partypoker Millions 30th March (£6 million); Norwegian Championships (56 events) 31st March to 8th April.

pickarooney

ambro25 wrote: »

We play cribbage regularly, and I play it every now and then for money in a local Working Mens Club (I'm in Yorkshire).

Post-dinner Belote is mandatory whenever we visit family in France.

Although I play both 'with partner' (4 player game), I still prefer Belote to Cribbage, it's more cerebral and tactical (there's more ways to eventually make good out of a random hand).

Have you tried Tarot?

ambro25

pickarooney wrote: »

Have you tried Tarot?

I have, in my misspent youth...but never really a fan of giant cards, nor too many of them

Another game we play whenever there's a good bunch of us around any (usually dinner) table, is Chase the Ace.

Very simple and great fun for all ages.

Each player is dealt a single card face down, dealer last, leftover stack face down.

Ace is lowest, then standard K>2.

The player can look at their card after being dealt.

If you get dealt a King, you have to turn it up.

If you're dealt anything else, you can either stick with it, or swap it for the card of the person to your left (provided they're not sitting on a King, in which case...you're stuck ). The person to your left cannot refuse the swap (again, unless it's a King, which can't be swapped).

When the last person's turn arrives back at the dealer, the dealer can turn up either-

• their card (the card they've received from the person to their right if a swap, or their originally-dealt card if no swap) OR
• the (face down) card at the top of the leftover stack

The person with the lowest card loses a life (play with tokens or money, 1 stake per life), next person deals.

Neon_Lights

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

My local has don night every Thursday, although it is a fairly old crowd. I know poker kicked off in a huge way here a years ago, has that died down now? I remember a lot of bars would have a Texas hold em night before, haven't seen them advertised in a while though

That's because bars realised people were there for the poker and not the drink.... It's actually an outrage though we used to have a great pub poker scene

Neon_Lights

diomed wrote: »

Poker is still played
Upcoming local events are the Irish Open on 27th March (€500k), Partypoker Millions 30th March (£6 million); Norwegian Championships (56 events) 31st March to 8th April.

To be fair your average local rounder isn't gonna pony up the 500 quid plus buyins to be throttled in the first level by some Scandinavian maniac