Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anybody play Bourre’ ?? a card game

Learned to play Bourre’ when I was little. We have a group of friends we play with. I like it a lot better than poker. You can get your ass kicked with a good hand, sometimes win with a sorry hand. It depends on how the cards fall. It is mostly a Coon Ass game, my people came from Louisiana originally. We play for a dollar ante. Some pretty good money changes hands sometimes.

Any other Bourre’ players on the 🔥 Fire

That term was in an old country song, the title of which escapes me now. Or maybe it was a Jerry Clower show.

Yes. I have the cards but not the rules. We made up rules that seem to work. They live in my camper and are one of few games that we can all play together.

Yes, my relatives played bourre when I ws a kid growing up in southwest Louisiana. When everyone came in for the game they frisked everybody for knives, if you didn’t have a knife they gave you one.

I think this is mostly a regional game.

I played it in college forever ago. Made a bit of drinkin money playing it. I can barely remember those basic rules.

I’ve only heard coon-ass talk of it.

It was Clower. Thats what them beer drinkers was playing in the beer joint before Marcel Ledbetter broke it up with that lightweight McCullough chainsaw

Played it one time in South Dakota in the evening after a pheasant hunt. Some of our friends/customers from Louisiana introduced us to it. If memory serves, we were all over served, and the game ended in a tussle. Thanks for resurrecting that memory, from around 1995! 😎

$1 ante Bourre' is too rich for me. While in college, we use to play $.01 ante and make drinking money. $.10 ante was playing for serious money.

Played it in college a lot. With a dollar ante, it can get less than friendly in a hurry.

Spot on, and thanks. 😜

It can get you broke in a hurry. I only take a couple hundred. It’s gone, I’m done.