How to Play Liar's Poker
Liar's poker combines the ability to bluff with the insight to recognize bluffing in your opponents. You can play the game for money, or substitute "points" for money if you prefer not to gamble. Liar's poker can also be used as a tool for teaching probability concepts, such as "what are the odds that there are 4 aces among these two sets of numbers."
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Instructions
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Give each player a set of numbers to play with. This can be from the serial numbers on dollar bills, or by randomly generating numbers for each player. Each player needs eight digits to begin play.
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Decide who goes first and wait for him to announce a poker hand that he believes can be created by combining all the numbers from all players. For example, he might call "two sixes." That would mean that he thinks there are at least two sixes among all the numbers being played.
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Wait for the second player to announce a better poker hand than the previous player did. Play continues until you do not believe that the hand mentioned is actually available within the numbers in play. When that happens, call liar and look at everyone's numbers. If you were correct, you get a point, if the caller was correct, he gets a point.
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Tips & Warnings
Zeros in this game count as tens, while ones count as aces.
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Comments
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These poker sites are lame and I know I was cheated out by some non-human program that collects my money. How is it that when I have been playing on real live webcam poker on pokerview there are no crazy fuking bad beats.
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James-Murdoch
Sep 23, 2008
How do you play liar's poker with cards? I recall playing a game where there is an ante and then one person picks up five cards and draws (if desired) and calls a hand. Then everyone kicks in the ante and the person to the left accepts or challenges the hand. If accepted the next player can draw then must call a better hand. If challenged and chaught lying, there is some penalty (or that peson is just out), then the calling starts over. If there is a false challege, the challenger gets a penalty (or is just out). I do not recall the penalty (if there was one beyond being out). Last one in gets the pot (I think). Does anyone have any clearer details?
