Poch

Poch, throbbing or Pochspiel, Fr. Poque is a very old card game that was already mentioned in 1441 in Strasbourg. French immigrants brought the Poque to America, where it developed into the poker game in the 19th century - in the name of poker, from English to poke is the French Poque can easily be detected. A Poch related to the English game is Pope Joan.

More forerunner of poker are the Old English Brag and the French Bouillotte or Brelan and Belle River and Thirty.

Rap is also another name for the card game typing.

The rules

General

Poch is a game for three to six people. Man playing with a package of 32 or 52 sheets of French playing cards, sometimes also German playing cards; also you need a so-called Pochbrett which receives the stakes for Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, Mariage, sequence and Poch.

Before starting the game, each participant puts a mark in every field of the board. Then each player is dealt five cards, the next card in the deck will be added, this determines the trump suit ( trump ).

The Report

After dividing the Report (announcements ) follows the figures: If a player has the trump ace, he has before this and pulls the amount, which is in the section concerned of the board. Do the same for the players that hold the trump king, the trump -Dame, the Trump Jack and the Trump ten.

If a player holds the trump King and Trump Lady, he will receive the exception of the inserts in these two fields and the use of the Mariage (Eng. wedding).

The use of the sequence field is due to the player, who can show the three cards Trump Nine, Eight Trump and Trump Seven.

If a tray is not emptied in the course of reporting, the bet will remain in this field and will not last for the next game. Before the next game even comes to the new application.

The throbbing

The ensuing rap corresponds to a poker game with simplistic rules.

Who is a " trick ", that is, has two or more cards of the same rank, may say: " I insist! " and thereby set an arbitrary number of brands in the Pochrubrik in the middle of the board. Who the Pocher with a better trick - it only count foursquare, Gedritte and couples - to be able to offer might think, says: "I believe! " and uses the same number of marks. It can also nachpochen and raise the stakes. However, he holds a little promise him appearing leaf, he will prefer to fit and get out of this phase of the game. Then comes along the same lines of the third, fourth, etc. players to put on the line - exactly as in the rounds of betting in poker game.

Foursquare ( four of a kind ) are higher than Gedritte ( three of a kind ), and these in turn higher than couples ( two matches ). In similar feats of card rank decides; two players have identical pairs, thus gaining the player who can show the appropriate card in the trump suit.

Get all players except one, so this wins the contents of the Poch- field and need not be presented his paper.

The playout

The last phase of the game the playing follows: The winner of the rap starts and plays any card from. The player who has the next highest in rank card of the same color, this puts on the played card, etc. to this chain breaks, because it will be completed with either the corresponding ace or can no longer be continued, as the result map required in the Talon lies. The player who has played the last card, must now start with any card from his hand a new chain. Now In this way, the game continues until a player can discard his last card.

This player now receives from each player as many tokens as profit paid out, as this still cards in his hand ( cf. Fan Tan ).

Supplements

• According to Meyer brands are not paid into the designated Poch compartment in the middle at the start of the game.
• As a sequence is referred to in the card game generally a sequence of at least three consecutive cards of one color, such as B ♥ - ♥ 10 - ♥ 9 It is sometimes also played such that the player must collect the bets on the sequence field of the can boast top-ranked sequence ( as in Meyer). Here beats the longer the shorter, while long sequences suggests that, higher the lower two sequences of equal length and the same height, shall propose the trump other colors; also brings the no decision, the player wins, sitting closer to the left of the divider.

Swell

• 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