Talk:Brag (card game)

message: Found in the description of Nine Card Brag, I think it a little confusing. Does this mean that players start by playing their worst hand, and then playing the next best hand. Or do they start with their best hand? It could be clearer, I think.Steve De (talk) 13:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Players must always play the next best available set they have made 

message: Prial is used twice in the article without definition. The table of hand rankings lists "three of a kind" rather than "prial", which suggests that editors are not sure that readers will understand what a prial is. Therefore, either use "three of a kind" throughout, or define prial at its first use.Steve De (talk) 13:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Prial is now linked in both places. The term 'prial' is a short form of 'pair royal' which is the name in this game for a triplet or, in the long-winded vernacular, 'three of a kind'. All are explained at the link article. Bermicourt (talk) 12:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Define Prial? 

message: There is nothing in the article about pot covering which occurs when a player does not have the funds to continue betting. When this happens, he/she places what they have into the pot and place their cards face down on top of the pot. All subsequent bets from other players are placed on top of these cards, or more often, into another pile. When the hand is over, the winning cards are compared against the covering cards, if the covered cards beat the winning hand, the player takes only the covered pot, the winning hand taking the rest. If the winning hand beats the covered hand, the winning hand takes everything.
If a winning hand is unseen, a referee is required to compare the hands to prevent other players from seeing the unseen hand.
A player cannot cover a pot with a blind hand.
Another variation on Pot Covering is surrendering. If this variation is allowed, a player may place twice the current bet into the pot and surrender his/her hand, effectively covering the pot, even though he/she may have enough funds to continue normal betting.
86.182.202.37 (talk) 16:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pot Covering 

message: STRONGLY AGAINST MERGER : This is how he game is popular among INDIA masses, hardly anybody knows tha phrase "Three Cards" among the masses. Infact, that is how even I searched on net by the words "Teen Patti Game". Wikipedia is for masses, not for select elite chosing their own language and/pr phrase. You can also analyse the no. of hits FROM INDIA that you get on "three cards" Vs.  "Teen Patti". Thus, it should NOT be merged at all. Thanks 13:27, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger 

message: According to the source at the foot of the  article, a prial is the highest hand outranking a straight flush.
Also, the source states that a prial of threes is the highest hand and a straight flush of A-2-3 outranks A-K-Q.
This is also my experience of playing three card brag.
<https://www.pagat.com/vying/brag.html#rank>
Aint no saint (talk) 11:28, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hand Ranking 

message: I'm in the process of expanding the article and have started with the history section. I've temporarily added a few 'citation needed' tags, but I can see that the existing text was probably taken largely from Parlett's Dictionary of Card Games, so I'll remove them again once they're properly referenced. I've renamed the article simply 'Brag' because that it how it is referred to in most sources, and there are at least two variants that use three cards anyway, including the most common one that is usually referred to as "Brag". Bermicourt (talk) 09:44, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion and referencing 

message: In the third stage of classic brag, the goal is to get to 31, or as close as possible, and players can exchange cards to try and get to 31 - but bust if they go over? Players have three cards and aces count as ten - how are they meant to go over 31? 2001:569:BDA9:9000:5C79:AB95:3B5E:8593 (talk) 04:05, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for flagging that up. The source only talks about players "drawing" cards not exchanging them, so I've changed the text. That makes it entirely possible to exceed 31. David Parlett's History of Card Games seems to agree.  Bermicourt (talk) 19:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can you draw 31 in classic brag?