Poker game in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?

[CrazyIrishman]

finally got around to watching it last night and loved it. I do not, however, understand the poker game they were playing. I didn't catch the name but at first it was Baldugi but its not that....Anyone know what game it is/why he went broke with T66?

[theDetroitKid]

BRAG

[Mickey Brausch]

Link to Brag rules

[tempogain]

i could never figure that out either. everything on a pair of sixes?

[stereoman]

It wasn't in the original shooting script that you can read on the web but it's explained in the voiceover in the film beforehand:

INT. ED AND BACON'S HOUSE - NIGHT

We calm down for a while. A cool track (Spooky by Dusty Springfield) is playing. Ed is now smartly dressed, sitting in an armchair. We have a close-up of his face. He is motionless, eyes closed; he looks asleep. The camera slowly tracks down his body We reach a single hand; he is cutting the pack skilfully and faultlessly; he is very much awake. There is a knock on his door. His eyes open.

VOICEOVER: Ed has been playing cards since he could lift 'em up and he soon discovered that he had a big advantage. It's not that he's good with cards or even good at counting them. It's that he's good with reading people's reactions no matter how subtle and everybody has reactions...especially when it comes to money.

The original shooting script had Eddie say:

EDDIE: I knew he was bluffing, but somehow the worst card player round the table had fcuked me like a frozen virgin with a pair of sevens. A series of blows to my head with a baseball bat would have been greeted with a grin compared to this. Ten minutes earlier, I was two hundred thousand pounds richer; now I owed half a million.

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He was goaded into calling by Hatchet Harry.

...of course, you have artistic licence and you wouldn't have much of a movie if he folded to a £250,000 raise.

A bluff that turned into an extremely bad spur-of-the-moment ego-imbued call.

[CrazyIrishman]

Thanks for the responses...seems like a fun game.

[XxGeneralxX]

They should have online brag

[Scott_Baio]

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They should have online brag

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http://www.pagat.com/vying/brag.html#software