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Red Dog Games
Red Dog (also known as High Card Pool) started off as a banking game in which punter bet on whether any card in their hand would be the same suit as and higher than a card to be dealt from the pack. Red Dog's variations are Slippery Sam, Shoot and Polish Red Dog.
Shoot
The game is similar to Red Dog, but there are the following differences.
At the start, the dealer alone puts up a stake, which can be any amount between an agreed minimum and maximum.
The dealer deals just three cards to each other player. Players may not look at their cards until just before their turn to bet (when the previous player's turn is over).
At your turn, you may bet anything between an agreed minimum and the amount currently in the pot (obviously the agreed minimum for a player's stake must be less than the minimum that the dealer has to put into the pool). The dealer then turns up a card and you win if you can show a card from your hand of the same suit and higher in rank; otherwise you lose.
If the pot becomes empty, anyone who has not yet bet in that deal does not have a chance to do so. The deal immediately passes to the next player to the left.
If money remains in the pot at the end of a deal, the same dealer deals again. When the same person has dealt three times in succession they can choose whether to pass the deal on to the next player, keeping whatever is in the pot, or to deal a fourth time and pass the deal on after that, keeping whatever remains in the pot after the fourth hand.
Slippery Sam
This is also called Six-Spot Red Dog. The betting mechanism is the same as in Shoot, but the players bet on the basis of the dealer's turned up card, without having seen the cards in their hands.
The dealer deals just three cards to each other player, but they must not look at their cards. Then the dealer continues by dealing cards face up in the centre of the table until a six or lower appears. Each player bets on having a higher card in the same suit as the face up card. After the player has decided how much to bet, the player's whole hand is then exposed and the player wins the amount of the stake from the pot if it contains a higher card of the same suit as the dealer's card; if not, the player's bet is added to the pot.
If the pot becomes empty in the middle of a hand, the deal passes to the next player, who creates a new pot. At the end of a hand, the dealer retains anything that is left in the pot, and the deal passes to the next player.
Polish Red Dog
This is similar to Slippery Sam, except that the players bet without seeing either their own cards or the dealer's card. It is described in Ostrow's Complete Card Player (1945), and the description is reprinted in various later books. Alternative names are Stitch and Polski Pachuck.
The banker's initial stake is a fixed amount, and a player's maximum bet is half of what is in the pot at the time. When the player has bet, the dealer burns one card (faces it and puts it on the bottom of the pack), and turn up the next card, and the player's three cards are exposed. If the player has a higher card of the same suit as the dealer's card, the player is paid from the pot twice the amount of the bet; otherwise the bet is added to the pot.
If the pot is busted (runs out of money), the deal immediately passes to the next player. Otherwise the same player continues dealing until at the end of a hand the pot is at least three times its initial size. At this point the dealer declares a stitch round - a final deal after which if the pot is still not busted the dealer collects whatever is in it and the turn to deal passes to the left.
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Jackpots:
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Games:
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Games:
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