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bamaster

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Games with Playing Cards
« on: May 09, 2005, 04:59:03 AM »
I see it all the time.  Some teams have a stack of cards and everytime someone strikes, they take a card.  Best hand at the end of the game wins the pot.

Or something like that.

So do you play cards during league?  What game is it and how much do yo uplay for?

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livespive

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2005, 01:09:09 PM »
$2/game in ($1 for the jackpot)

Get a mark, draw a card
get a open, throw a card in
you can only keep 5 cards
Best poker hand wins.

High game over 200 wins the $5 pot.  IF no one shoots over 200 the $5
carries over to the next game.
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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2005, 02:38:30 PM »
This is just a small pot poker game.

$1 to get in
take a card on strike or spare
take two cards if you pick up a split
look at the 6th card and throw one away
best hand gets the pot
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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2005, 02:56:49 PM »
My bro in law and I like to do hold-em poker during games when we get together.  Rules are just draw a card on each strike.  First 2 strikes give you your pocket hand, then the rest come down from each strike.  

Basically any way we can incorporate poker into bowling.  Makes a great distraction at times


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shelley

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2005, 03:39:58 PM »
My teammates and a few others play poker, basically whoever wants in.  $1 to get in, a card for a strike or spare, two cards for each strike after the first in a row (so a four-bagger would be one card for the first strike, two for each of the second, third, and fourth for a total of seven).  Two for a split when we remember to use that rule.  You can only keep five cards at a time, so after pulling the sixth or seventh (or more, in the tenth), put some back.

We have two decks of cards from Hooters and one extra wild card from an old Vivid Video deck (Vivid is a pr0n company).  Poker is very popular with my team.  We use one deck per game and alternate them to keep the wear down.  I don't play because I'm guaranteed to drop 30 pins in average when I do.  I just supply the cards.  

High hand wins the pot.  Many a game has one particular guy winning by striking out in the 9th and 10th, pulling seven or more cards.  He bowled about two months for free just by winning the card game every night.

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2005, 03:45:48 PM »
Yup!  Poker.  Two different sets of rules, each game is for $.50 or $1 per game per each person.  Plus one large game for teams.

1.  Start with two cards.  Each time you strike you get two cards, one card for a spare, two cards for a converted split.  You may never have more than five cards in the hand at one time.  If you have five cards and strike you may throw away one and look at one and then throw away another and look at the second one.  High poker hand wins.  No wild cards.

2.  Start with no cards.  Same as above but you have to make up your mind in advance if you want two cards when you have five you must throw away two first, similarly, if you have four cards and want two you must toss one first.  This is a harder game and keeps the hands a little more reasonable.

We also play a team game on Tue. night's eight team league.  Each five man team puts in $20.  There is a shoe with four decks and you keep on picking and saving. (A good game can give your team fifteen cards or more!) 1 card for each individual that strikes an even number of times, i.e. one card for a double, one for a four bagger, one for a six bagger....  Each time a person converts a split that's a card.  If all five men strike in one frame thats a card.  If you bowl with a blind you get a single courtesy card.  High three teams get paid in the first game of the night and in the last game of the night.  Middle game doesn't count for cards.  Five of a kind is max hand, so if you have six threes it doesn't beat five kings.  Fun to play!
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RealBowler

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2005, 04:31:30 PM »
$2 per game.  Take a card only on strikes.  Max of 5 cards per game (take them whenever you want).  Best hand wins. Usually have about 10 people in the game.
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CharlieBrown

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2005, 06:14:53 PM »
£1 per game (US$2)

Strike, draw one card, best hand (at least 5 cards) wins the pot.

Usually we have £20 ($40) in the pot for each game, which isn't bad cosidering we have 40 people in our league.
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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2005, 06:29:18 PM »
On Thursdays, we do 2 cards for a strike, 1 for a spare, no throw away.  Usually play with 4 decks w/jokers.  We'll have anywhere from 5 to 8 people playing, makes for a decent pot sometimes.  It'll be funny because often times the low game (i've seen 150 win) wins the hand.  

On Mondays, we deal 5 to everybody at the start, 1 card for any mark, can only keep 5.  We've also tried a variation with 7 card hands, 1 card for any mark, 2 cards for a double, everybody plays face up, and you can pick ANY card from the deck you want.  Standard 52 card deck, no jokers.  That one was pretty interesting because there was an element of defense involved.
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bamaster

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Re: Games with Playing Cards
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2005, 08:58:52 PM »
You guys are some gambling fools!

Haha!

One league I bowled in I was discouraged from playing cards by a teammate because he thought it was taking away from my bowling game.  Heh.  5-man teams are too slow.  We played Gin Rummy, just for fun though.

Tony
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