From: curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch)
Newsgroups: rec.gambling
Subject: Drek, or Dreque if you prefer
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:18:58 GMT
Reply-To: curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch)
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX

The Legend of Dreque:

The proper spelling of drek is "dreque", as in "c'est la dreque", the
last line of the movie What's Up, Doc, uttered by Barbara Streisand.
The final e has an acute accent, also.  The game was invented in 1971
by a person whose nickname was dreque (yiddish for shit).
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The Rules:

Drek (or Dreque if you prefer,) is a five card hold'em game with a four
flush twist.  High only, but a four flush beats 2-pair.  The four-flush
acts like a non-local wierd wild card type thing since a fourflush is
statistically more common than 2-pair.  Many 'real' gamblers don't like
any games with a four-flush concept.  But I like it alot.

If you bet after seeing the first flop card, you're in for the match,
(a pot match up to a mercy limit, which is usually from 2 to 4 times
the ante.)

The game is called "3-5 drek" if there is a $3 ante and $5 match.
The game is called "2-8 drek" if there is a $2 ante and $8 match.

1. Everyone antes.

2. Everyone gets 3 cards face down, 2 are face down shared in the
   middle.

3. Bet starts with the 1st person to the left of the dealer.

4. After the first bet is done, (max bet is the ante, 3 raise limit,) a
   middle card is flopped.  This is everyone's card.

5. Bet starts again with the 1st person to the left of the dealer.
   If you bet after seeing the first card flop, then you must match the
   pot up to the mercy limit if you do not win.  Checking is not
   betting.  There are only 2 betting rounds.

6. After this round is over, traditionally but optionally, everyone
   turns their hand over face up since there is no more betting.

7. Then the last card is flopped.  Whoever win, wins.  However,
   If he has 3 of a kind or better, then he wins the pot and all the
   subsequent matches for this hand (i.e. this Drek game is over, this
   is called "raking") else the matches stay in the pot for the next
   hand of Drek (i.e. Drek continues.)

8. If the game continues, the person to the right of the dealer must
   deal it.


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Question #1:
	You're playing 3-5 drek and on the last hand, 3 people
	matched.

	You're dealt 4H,5H,6D and when the bet gets to you it's $6, no
	raises left and you stay in with some trepidation.

	5 people have stayed in.

	A 8C flops.  Your hand is now a 4 5 6 8 inside straight, with
	no chance for a four flush.

	The bet comes around to you and noone new has folded, you are
	the last better.  The bet is 3$.  

	Should you:
		A. Raise 
		B. Fold 
		C. Call
Question #2:
	Same as above except the last bet to you is $6 instead of $3.
	Should you 
		A. Raise 
		B. Fold 
		C. Call
Question #3:
	Same as #1 except the game is 3-8 drek.
	Should you 
		A. Raise 
		B. Fold 
		C. Call
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I have my own, (controversial,) answers written up, which I'll post
later if there's any interest.

curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality 
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