Tripoli is a card game that is played with four to seven players in three stages. The game is played with one deck of cards, poker chips and Tripoli board or cloth. It is sold under various names including Tripoley, Michigan Rummy and Royal Rummy in addition to Tripoli.

Dealing and Placing the Stakes

Before the hand is dealt, each player will place one chip on each of the nine spaces on the Tripoli board. One the chips are placed, the dealer will deal out the cards, face down, to each player and one card for an extra hand. The extra hand doesn't belong to anyone, but must be dealt. The deal continues, as per an article published in online-betting.ph website, until the dealer runs out of cards and some players will have more cards than other players. The dealer has the option to exchange his hand for the extra hand without looking at the cards first. The extra hand can also be auctioned off to the remaining players for chips if they don't like their hand. No one can look at the extra hand before the swap and the person who chooses to swap his cards cannot swap back.

Stage One: Collecting Stakes for Pay Cards

In stage one the players will collect chips from the pay cards. Sections of the board are labeled for the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of hearts. The players who hold these cards will receive the chips in the respective spaces. In addition, there is a space that is labeled king-queen of hearts. If a player holds both the king and queen of hearts, they will collect the chips from this space leaving the chips in the spaces labeled separately. The chips in the space labeled eight-nine-ten can be picked up by any player who has an eight, nine and ten of one suit. If more than one player has this combination, the chips are split evenly between them with any extras left on the board. The chips unclaimed are left on the board for future hands.

Stage Two: Poker

Each player chooses five cards from her hand to play the poker phase with and set the remaining cards to the side. The round begins starting with the person to the left of the dealer. Each player has the option to place or raise a bid, fold his cards or call. Players who choose to fold place their card down and do not continue to play this hand. Players who call will place the amount of chips that were bet by the first player in the game. All chips should be placed in the middle section labeled “pot” and the betting ends when all players have either folded their cards or all players have bet the same amount. Players then show their hand and the one with the best poker hand wins the chips in the pot.

Third Stage: Michigan

All players will pick up all of their cards and the person who won the poker stage will start the Michigan stage. A card of any suit will lead the hand, but it must be that person's lowest card of the suit the choose. The player who holds the next highest card of that suit will then play her card. This will continue until the ace is reached or no one can play a card. When the end of the sequence is reached the player who laid the ace or the last card played will begin the new sequence. The player who runs out of cards will win all of the chips in the “kitty” space and chips from each other player for the amount of cards left in their hand.

Ending the Game

At the end of the three rounds, there are normally chips left on the board. These chips can be earned by dealing each person five cards and playing an extra round of poker the same way round two was played. The winner of this hand will receive all of the chips on the board.

Napalm Poker Card Game Rules of Play

In Napalm, regular poker chips are used for betting and additional chips or other “tokens” are also used. Tokens are awarded to players at various times in the game and the first person to collect five tokens wins the pot.

To Begin Napalm

Everyone in the game antes one chip and the dealer deals two cards to each player and the players look at their cards and they each declare, in turn, “Yes” or “No” indicating whether they believe they have the best two cards dealt in that deal. If all players say “No” and the play returns to the dealer and he says “Yes”, the other players each get a turn to challenge him by changing their “No” to “Yes”.

After all “Yes” and “No” statements have been made:

If only one player has said “Yes”, he is awarded one token from the token pile.
If two or more players have said “Yes”, they show each other their hands without showing them to the other players and the player with the highest hand wins their side bet, equal to the amount that is currently in the pot.
If there is a tie for best hand, no chips are paid, unless there is another player who also said “Yes” but whose hand is lower than the other players' hands. If this occurs, the losing player pays chips to both of the winning players, equal to the amount of the current pot.
If no players said “Yes” no chips are awarded and the play continues.

The highest ranking card is an Ace, followed by K, Q, J, 10 and so on. Any pair beats any single cards. If there is a tie for the highest card, the second card is used to determine the winner.

Stage Two of Napalm Poker

An additional three cards are dealt to be added to the two cards that are already in each player's hand. Each player, in turn, makes their declarations about whether they believe they have the lowest hand with their five cards. At this stage, straights and flushes count with the same values they have in other poker games.

After declarations are over, cards are compared and side bets awarded.

Stage Three of Napalm Poker

Two more cards are dealt to each player. Players make their declarations based on whether they think they have the best poker hand using any five of their cards. Awards and tokens are given based on the “Yes” declarations of the players and the best five card hand amongst those who said “Yes”.

The cards are all folded and shuffled and a new dealer begins the next hand. With each new dealer, everyone antes another chip. The game ends when one player has been awarded five (or any agreed upon number) that player receives all the chips in the pot.

The game of Crazy Eights is played by adults and children and is a great card game for medium sized groups of two to ten people, though it works best with three to six. Crazy Eights is played by following the lead of the player before you and following either suit or card value. The game of UNO, by Mattel is based on the card game Crazy Eights and other versions of the card game include Bartok, Crates, and Last One.

The Deck and Deal for Crazy Eights

The game is played using a 52-card deck or with two decks if six or more people are playing. The cards should be dealt starting with the person on the dealer's left until five cards have been dealt to each person. Seven cards should be dealt if only two people are playing. The top card from that pile is turned over and placed next to the pickup pile to form the discard pile, and is the card that will start the game.

Crazy Eights Card Game Play

The person on the dealer's left starts the play by placing one of the cards from his hand on top of the discard pile. He must do this following one of these two rules: 1) the card must match the discard either by value or suit, 2) the card is an eight of any suit. If the card is an eight of any suit, the player can change the suit of play to any suit he wishes. So if the top card of the discard pile is a seven of clubs, the player must play a seven or a club, or if he chooses he can play an eight of any suit and announce what suit he would like the next card to be played in. If he announces spades, the next card played must be a spade or another eight, changing the suit again.

If the player doesn't have a matching valued card or a matching suit card and does not have or want to play an eight, he must them pick up a card from the pickup pile and continue picking up until he can play a card. It is possible for the player to pick up several cards in this manner. For this reason, there are some who put a maximum on the number of cards that must be picked up if the player does not have matching cards. So if the player does not have a card and must pick up, it can be determined before the start of play that he would only have to pick up three cards before passing his turn to the next player.

Ending the Crazy Eights Hand and Scoring

The play ends when one of the players has no more remaining cards to play. Scoring is done by adding up all the cards left in the other players' hands. This score is a penalty score. The cards 2 through 9 are valued at five points, the cards 10, J, Q, and K are valued at 10, the Aces are worth 15 and the 8 cards are worth 50 points each. The game ends when one of the players has a score that equals or exceeds a predetermined score such as 500.

Whist

Not everyone has heard of Whist. The game is not as well-known in the USA these days. A similar game, Bridge, is more popular in the USA and internationally. Yet at one time Whist was a game played at social clubs and coffee houses. Whist remains a popular game today in the UK. Serious players compete in local Whist tournaments. What is the long-lasting appeal of Whist?

History of Classic Whist

Members of the private gentlemen's club, Turf Club, developed the rules for the version of Whist most commonly played during the eighteenth and nineteen century. This version of Whist began as a private game offered only at the Turf Club. However, the game grew in popularity among the British upper class and the Turf Club members shared the card game with others. In 1864, the Portland Club officially sanctioned the new rules for Whist.

Classic Whist Rules and Dealing

Classic Whist is a four player take-trick game with two partnerships and popular in Canada sports betting gamblers. The four players are grouped into two fixed partnership and sit facing each other. No one can signal his partner.

Two card decks are often used to save time. After a card dealing, the dealer's partner shuffles the extra deck of cards and places it on the right. The dealer for the next hand can pick up the shuffled deck of cards and pass it to his right to be cut.

Use a standard 52 card deck. The cards in each suit are ranked from ace high to two low. The player on the dealer's left shuffles the cards and the one on the right cuts the cards. The person who deals provides one card at a time until each player has 13 cards. The entire deck is used. The final card is the dealer's card and becomes trump for the entire hand or trick. The trump beats all cards regardless of rank. Two points are also given for the honor cards – King, Queen, Ace and Jack of trumps.

Playing Classic Whist

The player can lead with any card. In a clockwise order, players each play a card to the trick. Players lay cards of the same suit as the lead card if possible. If a player runs out of a card in the designated suit, he can play any card. The player with the trick with the highest trump wins. If the trick has no trump, the highest card in the designated suit wins. The winner of a trick leads next with the card of his choice.

Memory is also important in Whist strategy. When a trick is completed, the cards are placed face down and kept in a pile near the player who won the trick. Before a new trick begins, a player may ask to see the cards from the last trick but not previous ones.

There are 13 tricks in classic Whist. When all 13 tricks are completed, the score is calculated. The partners with the most won tricks scores one point for each trick won in excess of six. The partners who reach five points first wins the game. If no one has enough points to win, another hand is played until a there is a winner.

Types of Whist

A large number of games are based upon classic Whist. Various types of Whist include:

Solo Whist: Players make bids to win in 5, 9 or 13 tricks or to lose all tricks.
Hearts: Hearts follows similar rules but players do not take tricks.
Bid Whist: Players follow classic Whist rules but also bid.
Israeli Whist: Players bid on the exact number of tricks taken.
Knock-out Whist: If a player does not win a trick, he is eliminated from the game.
Spades: Spades are always trump and players place bids.
Danish Whist or Call-Ace Whist: Bidders choose partners by calling an ace.
Minnesota Whist: The game has no trumps and can be played to win or lose tricks.

Whist remains a popular game for card players in some variation. In this way, classic Whist lives on.