It’s funny that charr mentioned Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels in a comment on my previous post. In my quest to learn every gambling game out there (See “If you want to gamble, follow the Chinese guy“), I was awake late one night last week and decided to look up the poker game they were playing in the movie. It took a bit of searching, but the game is called 3 card brag, and it’s one really fucked-up poker game. The thought of playing it for money terrifies the hell out of me. It’s a game where you can basically continue raising indefinitely. I won’t go into all the details of the game, but the other fact that I found extremely interesting is that the cards are not shuffled unless a hand is “‘seen’ and won by a prial.” Unbelievable. That means that card counting can play a significant role in the game, kind of like seven card stud, but even more so because it would go for multiple hands. I’ve got to see this game played live.