Three Card Guts (#6)

Also known as: Monte Carlo.

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Root Game (#0)

Children:

Three Card Draw (#90)

Tags: draw

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to two cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.

Parent: Five Card Draw (#1)

Children:

Beat the Deck (#322)

Also known as: Three Card Guts with a Phantom Hand.

Tags: draw, guts, qualifier, table

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Deal three table cards face down.
3. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
4. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Use three card poker hands (straight flush beats three of a kind beats straight beats flush beats pair beats high card).
7. You must beat the table hand to win.
8. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Children:

Bullet (#323)

Tags: draw, guts, qualifier, table, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Deal three table cards face down.
3. Declare in/out simultaneously.
4. Each player may draw up to two cards.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. You must beat the table hand to win.
7. Standard poker hands, but there are no straights or flushes, and three threes beats all hands.
8. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
9. Threes are wild.
10. Nines are wild.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Cahones (#324)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may twist up to three cards for minimum bet each.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Children:

Full Monty (#329)

Tags: draw, guts, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
6. Of the first up cards seen, the lowest is wild, as are all cards of the same rank.
7. Of the first up cards seen, the highest is wild, as are all cards of the same rank.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Herbie (#330)

Tags: draw, guts, qualifier, table

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Deal three table cards face down.
3. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
4. Each player may draw up to three cards.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Use three card poker hands (straight flush beats three of a kind beats straight beats flush beats pair beats high card).
7. You must beat the table hand to win.
8. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Kryptonite (#331)

Tags: draw, guts, qualifier, table, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Deal two cards face down to the table.
3. Deal one card face up to the table.
4. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
5. If no one goes in, deal another three table cards down as another kitty.
6. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
7. Showdown, high hand wins.
8. Use three card poker hands (straight flush beats three of a kind beats straight beats flush beats pair beats high card).
9. To win you must be able to beat every set of table cards.
10. Everyone who went in and lost matches the pot. Redeal for all (except the table cards) if no one went in or no one had to match the pot.
11. Any card of the same rank as the first table card flipped is wild

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Minnesota Guts (#332)

Tags: draw, guts, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player in turn must draw one or three cards.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
6. Fours are wild.
7. Queens are wild.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Children:

Strong Twos (#335)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Everyone who went in and lost matches the pot, and then matches it again for each two revealed at the showdown. If no one went in or anyone matched the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

The Drop (#336)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Normal poker hands, but straights and flushes don't count.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Three Card Guts with the Weenie Rule (#337)

Also known as: Three Card Big Chicken, Three Card Guts with the Harsh Nelly Rule, Three Card Guts with the Wimp Rule.

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
6. If no one goes in, the player with the highest hand must match the pot.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Children:

Three Card Low Guts (#338)

Also known as: Antiguts, Bones.

Tags: draw, guts, lowball

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Showdown, low hand wins.
5. Straights and flushes are ignored in low hands. The lowest possible hand is A-2-3-4-5, known as the Wheel or the Bicycle.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Three Card Punishment (#340)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out simultaneously.
3. If less than two players go in, everyone who went out must match the pot.
4. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Three Card Screw (#341)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out simultaneously.
3. If no one goes in, everyone must reante.
4. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Three Card Guts (#6)

Don Juan (#463)

Tags: draw

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to three cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.

Parent: Three Card Draw (#90)

Children:

Don Juan II (#464)

Tags: draw

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player in turn must draw one or three cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.

Parent: Three Card Draw (#90)

Three Card Double Draw Lowball (#466)

Tags: draw, lowball

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to two cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
6. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
7. Showdown, low hand wins.

Parent: Three Card Draw (#90)

Children:

Three Card Poker (#467)

Tags: draw, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Jacks with only one eye are wild. This is typically the jacks of hearts and spades.
7. The queen holding a scepter is wild. This is typically the queen of spades.
8. The one eyed king is wild. This should be the king of diamonds.
9. The king with a sword through his head is wild. This is typically the king of hearts.

Parent: Three Card Draw (#90)

Three Legged Race (#468)

Tags: draw, legs

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to three cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. High hand gets a leg, but the pot stays.
6. Repeat the last five actions until someone gets three legs. They get the pot.

Parent: Don Juan (#463)

Baseball Guts II (#747)

Tags: draw, guts, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
4. Anyone who went in with a four gets an extra card.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
7. Threes are wild.
8. Nines are wild.

Parent: Baseball Guts (#321)

Cahones Lowball (#750)

Tags: draw, guts, fee, lowball

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may twist up to three cards for minimum bet each.
4. Showdown, low hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Cahones (#324)

Two Card Cahones (#751)

Tags: draw, guts, fee

Rules:

1. Deal two cards down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may twist up to two cards for minimum bet each.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Cahones (#324)

Children:

South of Minnesota (#757)

Tags: draw, guts, wilds

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player in turn must draw one or three cards.
4. Showdown, high hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
6. Threes are wild.
7. Jacks are wild.

Parent: Minnesota Guts (#332)

Three Card Guts with the Nelly Rule (#758)

Tags: draw, guts

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. If no one goes in, the player with the highest hand must pay max bet to the pot.
4. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
5. Showdown, high hand wins.
6. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.
7. If no one goes in, the player with the highest hand must match the pot.

Parent: Three Card Guts with the Weenie Rule (#337)

Three Low (#824)

Tags: draw, jokers, lowball, wilds

Rules:

1. Use a 52 card deck with one joker added.
2. Deal three cards face down to each player.
3. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
4. Each player may draw up to three cards.
5. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
6. Each player may draw up to three cards.
7. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
8. Showdown, low hand wins.
9. Jokers are wild.

Parent: Don Juan (#463)

Children:

One Two Three (#827)

Also known as: 1-2-3.

Tags: draw, odd-ranks

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to three cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Each player may draw up to two cards.
6. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
7. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
8. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
9. Showdown, high hand wins.
10. The closest hand to ace-two-three wins. Hands with a pair lose to hands without a pair. Distance is determined using Manhattan distances.

Parent: Three Card Double Draw Lowball (#466)

Children:

Three Legged Low Ball Double Draw (#828)

Tags: draw, legs

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to two cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
6. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
7. High hand gets a leg, but the pot stays.
8. Repeat the last seven actions until someone gets three legs.

Parent: Three Card Double Draw Lowball (#466)

Two Card Lowball Cohones (#1001)

Tags: draw, guts, lowball

Rules:

1. Deal two cards down to each player.
2. Declare in/out one at a time, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.
3. Each player may twist up to two cards for minimum bet each.
4. Showdown, low hand wins.
5. Anyone who went in and lost must match the pot. If no one went in or someone had to match the pot, redeal for all.

Parent: Two Card Cahones (#751)

Three High/Low (#1029)

Tags: draw, high-low, jokers, wilds

Rules:

1. Use a 52 card deck with one joker added.
2. Deal three cards face down to each player.
3. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
4. Each player may draw up to three cards.
5. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
6. Each player may draw up to three cards.
7. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
8. Declare high/low/both simultaneously.
9. High declared high hand and lowest declared low hand split the pot. Hands declared as both must win both to win anything.
10. Jokers are wild.

Parent: Three Low (#824)

Ace King Queen (#1030)

Also known as: AKQ.

Tags: draw, odd-ranks

Rules:

1. Deal three cards face down to each player.
2. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
3. Each player may draw up to three cards.
4. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
5. Each player may draw up to two cards.
6. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
7. Each player may draw one card if they wish.
8. Normal betting round, with the player to the left of the dealer opening.
9. Showdown, high hand wins.
10. The closest hand to ace-king-queen wins. Hands with a pair lose to hands without a pair. Distance is determined using Manhattan distances.

Parent: One Two Three (#827)