Card games.

[tim_noone]

Way back in the seventies and eighties when pubs where pubs and there was lots of Working? Men's clubs....playing Cards for money was the big Attraction ...enter most clubs midweek you were on for a game of Don or over the weekend three Card Brag! You don't seem to see it anymore provably due to rapidly becoming a cashless society. Wages were lost and won back then you could pick your club or pubs to go and chance your hand.any stories ? Face winds The ribble club just two to mention.

[piston broke]

Nap, crash and hearts(find the lady) always for cash but never silly amounts.
I once saw a guy running around a club showing guys his hand at 3 card brag. It was a no limit game and he’d run out of readies. Nobody would back him and he had to throw a prile in. Put me off big stakes games forever.

[FactualFrank]

I go through phases of playing Poker every weekend and then can go 3-4 months without playing it at all. But there are still pubs who have a gathering - they just don't advertise it as it's illegal to even play for pennies without a license.

Maybe it's the gambling laws that are tighter now than the 70s.

[tim_noone]

You just don't see it now...they must all bet on the football... Three card brag was the game that produced the tension the unease and the aggravation If in the wrong venue. I mention cards as I hadn't seen it played this century for sure,but popped in a club last week and there was two games of poker going on all very orderly and sanitised..it wasn't like that back in the day always like something out of a western.

[FactualFrank]

I remember Rileys in Burnley next to the post office and went to a few of their poker nights. The problem is they had music on at the same time. Poker and music doesn't really go well together.

[Quickenthetempo]

I go through phases of playing Poker every weekend and then can go 3-4 months without playing it at all. But there are still pubs who have a gathering - they just don't advertise it as it's illegal to even play for pennies without a license.

Maybe it's the gambling laws that are tighter now than the 70s.

Businesses just adhere to rules more these days just like under 18s can't get a pint anymore.

[tim_noone]

I go through phases of playing Poker every weekend and then can go 3-4 months without playing it at all. But there are still pubs who have a gathering - they just don't advertise it as it's illegal to even play for pennies without a license.

Maybe it's the gambling laws that are tighter now than the 70s.

I think it was illegal anyway frank... But yes you'll be pounced on quicker today I would imagine.

[FactualFrank]

I think it was illegal anyway frank... But yes you'll be pounced on quicker today I would imagine.

Of course. But things that are illegal can still be relaxed more. My point is, perhaps it was more relaxed back then and it's tightened up.

[tim_noone]

Don was a game played by four...two partners against two.all Blind...I loved this game and knowing when to go in with a five or nine? Or trump a card gave you a real Buzz strange but true ..I suppose the same applies to poker but have never taken it up it all seemed a bit highbrow to me....like golf is to putting.

[FactualFrank]

Don was a game played by four...two partners against two.all Blind...I loved this game and knowing when to go in with a five or nine? Or trump a card gave you a real Buzz strange but true ..I suppose the same applies to poker but have never taken it up it all seemed a bit highbrow to me....like golf is to putting.

Poker definitely gives you a buzz and there's so many reasons why. Such as having a 72o (weakest hand possible) and bluffing someone to fold because they have pocket Aces and the flop comes KK2 - they think you have KK but you have 72o and bluff your way into them folding. There's just so many scenarios with poker. Then there's the odds and the maths behind it. A brilliant game. It keeps the brain working, that's for sure.

[conyoviejo]

I used to play cards at the Rous club and Jimmy Nelsons ,both in Nelson.. It could get quite feisty after a few drinks with some big money going down..

[conyoviejo]

Nine card Don was a good game ,also used to play shoot Pontoon..Along with three card brag

[FactualFrank]

Some people like Internet card games, but I've tried it and never liked it. For me, playing cards is also down to the social aspect.

[tim_noone]

Nine card Don was a good game ,also used to play shoot Pontoon..Along with three card brag

So do still see it played in colne?

[conyoviejo]

So do still see it played in colne?

Probably still played in local clubs in Colne..

The Cambridge club,now that was a den of inequity ..

[tim_noone]

Probably still played in local clubs in Colne..

The Cambridge club,now that was a den of inequity ..

Face winds the same It was there for years....then gone! Just a memory

[jdrobbo]

Regularly play Canasta

[expoultryboy]

Conyoviejo : played occasionally in jimmys after cricket practice , where was the rous club ?

[TheFamilyCat]

I used to play cards at the Rous club and Jimmy Nelsons ,both in Nelson.. It could get quite feisty after a few drinks with some big money going down..

Jimmy's was usually a bit fiesty anyway.

[FactualFrank]

Jimmy's was usually a bit fiesty anyway.

Especially with the doctors and nurses.

[conyoviejo]

Conyoviejo : played occasionally in jimmys after cricket practice , where was the rous club ?

The Rous club was on Every St.. A real gambling den of inequity..