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{{Short description|British card game}}
{{Infobox card game
| title = Brag
| subtitle =
| image_link = [[
| image_caption = The highest hand in Three-Card Brag: a ''prial'' of 3s
| Family =
| alt_names = Brag
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| deck = Anglo-American
| origin = [[England|English]]
| related =
| playing_time = 5–10 min.
| random_chance = Medium
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Classic Brag is a three-stake game and players ante 3 stakes, one for each phase of the game. Eldest hand deals 3 cards to each player in turn, turning the last card dealt to each player face up. The game phases are:
== American Brag ==
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== Modern Brag ==
Modern Brag, often called Three-Card Brag to distinguish it from its variants,<ref>"Three Card Brag" in {{cite book|date=2018|title=50 Card Games: 50 Popular Card Games for Hours of Fun|publisher=Igloo Books|page=27|isbn=9781784409852}}</ref> is a single-stake game. Everyone [[Betting (poker)#Ante|ante]]s, and players are each dealt three cards face down. There is a single round of betting, with action starting to the left of the dealer. Each player has the option of betting or [[Betting (poker)#Fold|folding]]. If there was a previous bet, the player must contribute at least that much more to the pot. (Unlike usual poker betting, a player's previous money contributed to the pot is ignored.) This betting continues until there are only two players left, at which point either player may double the previous bet to
For example, with four players A, B, C and D, this situation could occur: Player A bets 2 chips, B folds, C bets 2 chips and D bets 2 chips. In order to stay in, A would have to bet another 2 chips (at least).
===Hand ranks===
{{card|club|J|60px}}{{card|club|10|60px}}{{card|club|9|60px}}▼
{{card|club|6|60px}}{{card|diamond|6|60px}}{{card|heart|6|60px}}▼
{{card|spade|9|60px}}{{card|diamond|8|60px}}{{card|club|7|60px}}▼
{{card|spade|Q|60px}}{{card|spade|10|60px}}{{card|spade|6|60px}}▼
{{card|diamond|2|60px}}{{card|heart|2|60px}}{{card|heart|Q|60px}}▼
{{card|heart|A|60px}}{{card|club|J|60px}}{{card|heart|10|60px}}▼
Hands generally follow the same sequence as the five-card hands of [[poker]] with some variation created by the differing odds of a three-card hand. By convention a prial
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=
|-
! Rank
!
! Example
! Frequency
! Probability
|-
| [[Prial
▲| {{card|club|6|60px}}{{card|diamond|6|60px}}{{card|heart|6|60px}}
| align=right | 52
| align=right | 0.24%
|-
| Straight Flush
▲| {{card|club|J|60px}}{{card|club|10|60px}}{{card|club|9|60px}}
| align=right | 48
| align=right | 0.22%
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| Straight
| Three cards in sequence
▲| {{card|spade|9|60px}}{{card|diamond|8|60px}}{{card|club|7|60px}}
| align=right | 720
| align=right | 3.26%
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| Flush
| Three suited cards
▲| {{card|spade|Q|60px}}{{card|spade|10|60px}}{{card|spade|6|60px}}
| align=right | 1,096
| align=right | 4.96%
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| Pair
| Two cards of same rank
▲| {{card|diamond|2|60px}}{{card|heart|2|60px}}{{card|heart|Q|60px}}
| align=right | 3,744
| align=right | 16.94%
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| High card
| None of the above
▲| {{card|heart|A|60px}}{{card|club|J|60px}}{{card|heart|10|60px}}
| align=right | 16,440
| align=right | 74.39%
|-
| Total hands
| -
| -
| align=right | 22,100
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== Variants ==
Some of these rules can also lead to games, especially heads-up, becoming tactical, with players avoiding making their best hand until their hand is forced into that last exchange by another player sticking, risking that the card that completes their hand isn't taken by another player in the meantime.
==Betting blind==
Players also have the option of playing blind (betting without looking at their cards). A blind player's costs are all half as much as an open (non-blind) player's. However, an open player may not raise or see a blind player. If all other players fold to a blind player, at least two variations exist - either the blind player takes the pot and the next round continues as normal; or alternatively, the pot remains, everyone re-antes, and the blind player gets to keep his hand for the next round (in addition to the new one he is dealt). At any time, a player with two blind hands may look at one of them and decide whether to keep it or throw it away. If he keeps it, he throws away the other hand and is considered open. If he throws it away, he keeps the other hand and is still blind. If everyone folds to a blind player with two hands, he must throw away one without looking. As with many rules in card games, regional differences apply to this rule.
==Shuffling==
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*[[Post and Pair]]
*[[Bouillotte]]
*''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', which features three-card brag.
== Footnotes ==
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* {{cite book |last1=Hardie |first1=Robert |title=Hoyle Made Familiar |date=1860 |publisher=Ward and Lock |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxhdAAAAcAAJ |language=en}} Robert Hardie was a pseudonym of Eidrah Trebor
* {{cite book |last=Hoyle |first=Edmund |author-link=Edmund Hoyle |title=A Treatise on Brag |date=1751 |location=London |publisher=Joliffe}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hoyle |first1=Edmond |title=The New Pocket Hoyle |date=1810 |publisher=Smith |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfNdAAAAcAAJ&q=new+pocket+hoyle |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Parlett |first1=David |author-link=David Parlett |title=A History of Card Games |date=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, England |isbn=0-19-282905-X}}
* {{cite book |last1=Parlett |first1=David |author-link=David Parlett |title=Oxford A-Z of Card Games |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, England}}
* {{cite book |last1=Parlett |first1=David |author-link=David Parlett |title=The Penguin book of card games |date=2008 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=978-0-141-03787-5}}
* {{cite book |last=Seymour |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Seymour (18th-century writer) |title=The Compleat Gamester | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECZhAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22the+compleat+gamester%22&pg=PA78 | date=1721 |location=London |publisher=Curll}}
== External links ==
{{Wikisource1911Enc|Brag}}
* [http://www.pagat.com/vying/brag.html Detailed Rules for Brag] by John McLeod
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=blEEAAAAYAAJ
{{Non trick-taking card games}}
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