How to Deal the War Card Game

Video Transcript

"Now let's make sure that we know how to deal war. It's pretty simple. In say a poker game you might deal out five cards if it's five card stud or five card draw. You might deal seven cards if you're playing stud. In hold em it's two to each player. Well, in war basically you're dividing the deck evenly amongst all the players. So what do you do? Well, if you're playing heads up - or two players - it's cool to just stay shuffle, shuffle, you know, get a good shuffle and then just - you know if you're playing with your three year old son or daughter no worries just to cut the deck exactly in half and just give them half the deck. Now let's say you're playing with four people. Just deal cards until you run out. That's what I'm going to do. I hope you all will promise to come back for the next segment. I'm just going to sit here and deal these cards until then."