Bouillotte

Bouillotte, also Brelan, is a historic, French card gambling, which was very popular in the time of the French Revolution and later in the 1830s. Bouillotte is like Brag and Poch to be regarded as a forerunner of poker game.

Regulate

Bouillotte is played by three to five people with a package Piquet cards ( 32 sheets of French playing cards). With five players, the sevens, when four players, the boys and three further players are the ladies away.

Before a game, each player pays a token (counter, chip) as ante into the pot. The first player on the forehand ( Age) may like the other players raise the pot ( raise). Those who do not go with want ( seeing the raise) must get out.

Each player is dealt three cards, the following map - with four players, so the thirteenth - called Retournement and pitched open.

After that, each player must either put (bet ), call (call), raise ( raise) or fold (drop out).

If the betting round, the cards are revealed and the highest hand wins the pot. The ranking of the hands is:

• Brelan carré: Four-of- the Retournement as one of the four cards.
• Brelan simple: Three of a Kind. If two players three equal values ​​, so decides the rank, the ace counts as the highest card.
• Brelan favori: Three of a kind with the Retournement as one of the three cards.

If no player a Brelan so hands under her eyes (pips) are evaluated, it is one of the ace eleven points, the character cards each ten points.