Irish Poker

This is a good game that a lot of people can play and stay into the game the whole time because it should move along pretty quickly. This game is good for up to ten people because any more than that you won’t have enough cards to finish. All you need for this game is a full deck of cards, playing surface for the cards, and beer.
In this game there is only one dealer and they keep the deck the whole time. It starts with the person to the left of the dealer guessing red or black (for what card the dealer will flip over). This goes around to everyone at the table. If you guess the color right you get to give out two drinks to anyone, if you guess wrong you have to take the two drinks. Once everyone has taken the first turn the second round starts with guessing higher or lower on your first card that was dealt. There are four drinks to be given in this round, again if you get it right you give them out, and if wrong take them. The third round you have to guess whether the third card will be in-between or outside of your first two cards. For example if your first card was a 4 and second a King, you would likely guess in-between to play your odds. During the second and third round if you are given the same card as you already had, you have to drink double the amount (if you have a 4 and 6, and the third round gives you another 6 you have to take 12 drinks). This goes around to everyone at the table and six drinks will be given at this round. The final fourth round each player guesses which suit they think the card will be, there are eight drinks to give/take with this round. You can always split up the number of drinks to be given to multiple people.
When that is done and if you still have 9 cards left over you can ride the bus. This is a little different than the last blog because there are more people; you set it up the same way though. Once again it’s like a bus with four cards parallel to each other and one in the middle of both (the driver), so it should look like a bus. One card is flipped over at a time, the left side is give, and right side is take. If you have one of the cards that are flipped, you either give or take drinks depending on what side it is. It starts at one side of the back of the bus and every row moved forward is another 2 drinks. So it goes 2,4,6,8 and the last row is give 10 drinks. If you have two of the same cards and that card is flipped during the bus you either give or take double the original amount.