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Cinch (card game) Cinch, also known as Double Pedro or High Five, is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family derived from Auction Pitch via Pedro. [ 1] Developed in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s, [ 2] it was soon regarded as the most important member of the all fours family in the USA, but went out of fashion with the rise of ...
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. [1] Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference [2] and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played ...
Pitch (card game) Pitch (or " high low jack ") is an American trick-taking game equivalent to the British blind all fours which, in turn, is derived from the classic all fours (US: seven up). Historically, pitch started as "blind all fours", a very simple all fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game. [ 1 ]
High-low split: the highest and lowest hands split the pot. Generally there is a qualifier for the low hand. For example, the low hand must have 5 cards with ranks of 8 or less. In most high-low games the usual rank of poker hands is observed, so that an unsuited broken straight (7-5-4-3-2) wins low (see Morehead, Official Rules of Card Games).
High card, also known as no pair or simply nothing, is a hand that does not fall into any other category, such as K ♥ J ♥ 8 ♣ 7 ♦ 4 ♠ ("high card, king" or "king-jack-high" or "king-high"). [17] [26] Note that under ace-to-five low rules, straights, flushes and straight flushes are not possible, so such hands are instead high card ...
Five-card draw (also known as Cantredraw) is a poker variant that is considered the simplest variant of poker, and is the basis for video poker. As a result, it is often the first variant learned by new players. It is commonly played in home games but rarely played in casino and tournament play. The variant is also offered by some online venues ...
Pedro is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family based on auction pitch.Its most popular variant is known as cinch, double Pedro or high five which was developed in Denver, Colorado, around 1885 [1] and soon regarded as the most important American member of the all fours family.
Five-card cribbage (called the "old game"): The two players are dealt five cards each, two of which are discarded into the crib. The crib thus consists of four cards but each hand only three. The first non-dealer gets a three-point start, the play (pegging) goes up to 31 only once and does not restart.