Do people still play cards anymore?

gramar · 02-03-2017 11:47am #1

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 · 02-03-2017 11:51am

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 · 02-03-2017 11:54am

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 · 02-03-2017 11:54am

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 · 02-03-2017 11:54am

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 · 02-03-2017 12:18pm

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 · 02-03-2017 12:22pm

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 · 02-03-2017 12:25pm

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

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 02-03-2017 12:28pm

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 · 02-03-2017 12:32pm

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 · 02-03-2017 12:34pm

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 · 02-03-2017 12:40pm

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

Your Face · 02-03-2017 12:45pm

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

uch · 02-03-2017 1:24pm

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

Potential-Monke · 02-03-2017 1:26pm

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 · 02-03-2017 1:32pm

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 · 02-03-2017 1:49pm

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 · 02-03-2017 3:00pm

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 · 02-03-2017 3:04pm

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 · 02-03-2017 3:05pm

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 · 02-03-2017 3:10pm

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

Samuel T. Cogley · 02-03-2017 3:27pm

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

kieran. · 02-03-2017 3:31pm

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 · 02-03-2017 4:10pm

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

Dave_The_Sheep · 02-03-2017 4:22pm

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 · 02-03-2017 4:22pm

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 · 02-03-2017 5:48pm

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 · 02-03-2017 5:57pm

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-03-2017 6:16pm

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 · 02-03-2017 7:16pm

AAAKK

Lorelli! · 02-03-2017 7:45pm

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

Do people still play cards anymore?

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