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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 375 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRAG , a very old See also:

game of See also:cards, probably evolved from the See also:ancient See also:Spanish See also:primero, played by five or six, or more players. It is the ancestor of See also:poker. A full See also:pack is used, the cards ranking as at See also:whist, with certain exceptions. There are no trumps. Each player receives three cards and puts up three stakes. The last See also:round is dealt See also:face upwards: the holder of the highest card irrespective of suits wins the first stake from all the players. In the See also:case of equality the See also:elder See also:hand wins, but the See also:ace of diamonds is always a winning card. For the second stake the players: brag or See also:bet against each other, if they hold either a pair, or a pair-royal (three cards of the same See also:rank). Pairs and pairs-royal take See also:precedence according to the value of the cards composing them, but any pair-royal beats any pair. The See also:knave of clubs may be counted as any card, e.g. two twos and the knave of clubs rank as a pair-royal in twos; two aces and the knave as a pair-. royal in aces. Sometimes the knave of diamonds is allowed; the same See also:privilege, but is inferior to the See also:club knave; e.g. two threes and the club would See also:beat the other two threes and the See also:diamond. Players who accept another's brag must See also:cover his. bet and offer another.

The third stake is won by the player whose cards make 31 or are nearest to 31 by their pips, aces and See also:

court counting ten; but the ace may by arrangement See also:count as i or Ir. Players may draw from the stock, losing if they over-draw. If one player wins all three stakes, he may receive the value of another stake, or of two or three stakes, all round, as arranged. The See also:deal passes as at whist. Each player should have the same number of deals before the game is abandoned.

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