How to Play the Klondike Dice Game

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Summary: Learn how to play Klondike, a classic dice gambling game played by early Americans; it is essentially poker with dice in this free how-to video on playing dice games for fun.

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Carlos worked as a youth mentor and recreation director for Shecar Development Services for 7 years. He organized several youth game tournaments (checker, chess and spades) He earned...read more

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" Hi my name is Carlos Ramos Jr. coming to you on behalf of Expert Village and today we are talking about a variety of games that you could played with dice. The next game we are going to talk about is a game called Klondike. Now this is game that was played in cheap casinos back in frontier America. What you need are 5 dice and the combination or hands are similar to poker. So this is pretty much poker with dice. What happens is the banker rolls the dice first. Then he arranges the dice in descending order. Now, one would represent ace so that would be the highest so, but from 1 down to 2. So here are you 5s and your 4 and your 3. In poker that would be a 3 of a kind. The next player would have to roll his 5 dice and see if he could beat that hand. Again, there is your ace, here are your 6s, 5, 4, 3, and his hand does not obviously beat a 3 of a kind. The house wins you pay up to the house. Klondike. Pretty much like poker lot of fun. "

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