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Poch , throbbing or Pochspiel , Fri. Poque is a very old card game that was mentioned as early as 1441 in Strasbourg . Pochen is considered to be one of the forerunners of the game of poker that developed in America in the 19th century. An etymological relationship between the game names is also assumed. Games related to throbbing are the French Glic and Nain Jaune and the English Pope Joan . Further forerunners of poker and possible relatives of the Pochspiel are the English Brag from the 16th century and the FrenchBrelan (later Bouillotte ) as well as Belle, River and Thirty-one .
Pounding is also another name for the card game typing .
The rules
The following rules are based on the description in Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1908; Poch was and is played in many variations with different details; the rule given here is therefore by no means binding in the same way as the rules of the game of chess .
General
Poch is a game of chance for three to six people. You play with a package of 32 or 52 sheets of French playing cards , sometimes also German playing cards ; you also need a so-called poch board , which holds the bets for ace , king , queen , jack , ten , mariage , sequence and knock .
Before the start of the game, each participant places a marker in each space on the board. Then each player receives five cards, the next card of the talon is opened, this determines the trump suit ( atout ).
The reporting
After dividing the following Log ( announcements ) of the figures : If a player has the trump ace, he has this before, feeding the amount that is in the relevant art of the board. The same goes for the players who have the trump king, trump queen, trump jack and trump ten.
A player holding the trump king and trump queen, he gets apart from the missions in these two fields and the use of the Mariage (dt. Wedding).
The bet on the Sequence field is due to the player who has the highest sequence ( sequence ) of three consecutive cards of the same suit. In sequence , the higher one beats the lower and Atout (trump) beats the other colors; if the sequences are the same, the forehand wins. (According to another common rule, in order to win the sequence subject, you have to show the three cards trump nine, trump eight and trump seven - other consequences do not apply.)
If a compartment is not emptied in the course of reporting, the stakes on this field remain and apply to the next game. Before the next game, the new bet is added.
The throbbing
The following pounding corresponds to a poker game with greatly simplified rules.
Who a " feat ", i. H. owns two or more cards of the same rank may say: "I'm pounding!" and put any number of tokens in the punch section in the middle of the board. Who the Pocher with a better feat - it only count foursquare , Gedritte and couples - believes he can beat, says, "I believe!" and places the same number of marks. But he can also knock on and increase the stake. However, if he holds a hand that does not seem very promising to him, he will prefer to pass and drop out of this phase of the game. Then the third, fourth, etc. player takes their turn according to the same pattern - just like in the betting rounds in a poker game.
Fourths (four of a kind) are higher than threesomes (three of a kind), and these in turn are higher than pairs (two of a kind). In the case of similar tricks, the card rank decides; if two players have the same pair, the player who can show the corresponding card in the trump suit wins.
If all but one of the players fold , he wins the contents of the Poch field and does not need to show his hand.
Playing off
The final phase of the game is the play : The winner of the knocking begins and plays any card. The player who has the next higher card of the same color in the range places it on the card played, etc. until this chain breaks, because it either ends with the corresponding ace or cannot be continued because the required next card is in the talon . The player who played the last card can now start a new chain with any card from his hand. In this way the game continues until a player can discard his last card.
This player receives as many tokens as winnings from each player as he still holds cards in his hand (cf. Fan Tan ).
additions
- According to Meyer , no tokens are paid into the compartment labeled Poch in the middle at the beginning of the game.
- In the card game, a sequence is generally a sequence of at least three consecutive cards of one color , e.g. B. ♥ B - ♥ 10 - ♥ 9. Sometimes the game is played in such a way that the player with the highest ranking sequence is allowed to collect the bets on the sequence field (as with Meyer ). Here the longer one beats the shorter one, with sequences of the same length the higher one beats the lower one, if both sequences are equally long and equally high, Atout beats the other colors; if that doesn't bring a decision either, the player sitting closer to the left of the divider wins.
swell
- ^ David Parlett: The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford Univ. Pres 1990, p. 86.
- ↑ Pope Joan , Description of the Game by David Parlett.
- ^ David Parlett: The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford Univ. Pres 1990, pp. 88 and 95-98.
- ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1908
- David Parlett : The Oxford Dictionary of Card Games , Oxford University Press Oxford, New York 1992/96
- David Parlett: The Oxford Guide to Card Games , Oxford University Press Oxford, New York 1990
