Three Card Brag Players, cards and preparationĪ standard 52 card pack without jokers is used.
This page has been put together from a variety of sources, and I am grateful to those who have contributed, including: Jon Garibaldi, Thomas Olsson, Dave Phillips, Jamie Prestidge, Chris Roberts, Phill Rogers, Brian Rollo, Justin Thurkettle, Mike Tobias. There are other games known as 6-card, 7-card, 9-card and 13-card Brag but they have a very different mechanism and will are covered on a separate page. On this page, Three Card Brag and its Four-card and Five-card variations will be described.
It is almost identical to the popular Indian game Teen Patti ('three cards'). The basic game of three-card Brag was one of the games described by Hoyle, and therefore dates from the late eighteenth century or earlier. It is sometimes said to be similar to poker, but in fact it is much older and the method of betting is different. 6-card, 7-card, 9-card and 13-card Bragīrag is a popular British gambling game.
