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Bourré (Booray) is a trick-taking card game that can be enjoyed by three to eight players. Win the most tricks in a round to win big in this game! Find the video tutorial and written explanation for how to play Bourré below.
Bourré Tutorial
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Needed
52 card deck; three to eight players; poker chips
Deal
Before the cards are dealt, each player will put an ante of one chip into the middle.
Each player is dealt five cards one card at a time. The last card dealt to the dealer is flipped face up for every player to see. The suit of the flipped up card is the trump suit for the round.
Objective
Bourré is a trick-taking game. The object of the game is to win the most tricks out of all players in a round. A trick is created by players playing a card into the middle. The player with the highest ranking trump card played wins the trick. If no trump card was played, the highest ranking card in the lead suit will win the trick.
Card Rank
Highest to lowest
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
Game Play
Starting with the player left of the dealer, each player will decide if they want to be in or out for the round. If a player chooses to be out, they will forfeit their ante, but can avoid a penalty for not winning any tricks in the round. If a player wants to stay in the round, they get to discard any amount of cards from their hand, and the dealer will deal the player back to five cards from the undealt deck.
The player left of the dealer will lead the first trick. Players must play a card in the same suit that was lead, if possible. The player that plays the highest ranking trump suited card wins the trick. If no trump suited card was played, the player with the highest ranking card in the lead suit wins the trick.
The player that wins the trick will lead the next trick. Players continue to play to tricks until all card have been played.
At the end of the round, the player that wins the most tricks wins the middle pot. Any player that played the round, and does not win a trick has gone bourré. A player that goes bourré has to pay to the pot the number of chips in the pot. This chip payment goes towards the next round’s pot. For example, if there are four chips in the pot, a player that goes bourré will pay four chips for the next pot.
The deal moves to the next player, with players making a new ante.
Rules
Players must follow the lead suit, whenever possible. If they cannot follow suit, they must play a trump suit card, if possible. If a player cannot follow suit, or play a trump card, they can play any card. Players must always play to win the trick, whenever possible.
If players tie for the most tricks won in a round, the pot stays in the middle for the next round. The tying players will not have to ante for the next round.
Players that go bourré will only pay the pot amount for the next round and do not have to add an additional ante.
A player that is sure to win three tricks is said to have a cinch. When a player has a cinch and is leading to a trick, the player must play their highest trump card. When a player has cinch and can play a trump to a trick, the player must play their highest trump card.
Chris Adams Death – Homicide
Chris Adams was shot in his Texas home in 2001. photo: wwe.com
1955-2001 (age 46)
Chris Adams, best known to wrestling fans as “Gentleman” Chris Adams, was fatally shot on October 7, 2001, during an altercation in his friends Waxahachie, Texas home.
Reported as a “drunken brawl”, the shooter was Brent “Booray” Parnell, a fellow wrestler and friend of Adams.
Parnell was ultimately acquitted of the charges on self defense.
Chris Adams Early Career
Chris Adams was a three-time national judo champion in England. Many with Adams’ background in combat sports stick their nose up at professional wrestling. Chris Adams embraced it.
A few months prior to his death, Adams told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that “it [professional wrestling] appealed to me — the theatrics mixed with athletic ability.”
Adams wrestled briefly in England before immigrating to the States in the early 80s.
By 1983, Adams was wrestling for Frtiz Von Erich‘s Texas-based territory, WCCW.
Chris Adams with manager, Gary Hart. Both men no longer with us. photo: wwe.com
WCCW, The Dynamic Duo
Chris Adams had a hugely successful run with World Class throughout the 80s where he worked as both a heel and a face. Managed by the late Gary Hart, Adams would finish opponents off with his signature “superkick” – a move that was later adapted by Shawn Michaels.
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Fans from this era no doubt recall Chris Adams partnering with “The Handsome Halfbreed” Gino Hernandez, forming The Dynamic Duo tag team.
The Sportatorium crowds came in droves to witness the Von Erichs feud with the Dynamic Duo, drawing big money for WCCW in the mid 80s.
The American Airlines Incident
Signs of trouble for Chris Adams were looming well before his death.
In 1986, a flight attendant claimed that Adams was belligerently drunk on a delayed American Airlines flight. After telling Adams to sit down in his seat, he told her “I make 25 times the money you do, and no one like you is going to tell me what to do.”
Adams proceeded to head-butt the co-pilot and picked up an assault conviction from a federal jury. The story goes that Adams had to be physically restrained by Kevin Von Erich.
Drug Overdose, Manslaughter Trial
Chris Adams’ life had become a whirlwind prior to his death.
Chris Adams works the late Kerry Von Erich. photo: wwe.com
He was awaiting trial on a manslaughter charge, stemming from an incident a year and a half prior where Adams and his girlfriend were both found unconscious in a Dallas apartment.
The two were partying the night prior, and had overdosed on a mixture of GHB and alcohol.
Adams would recover, his girlfriend, Linda Kaphengst, would not be so lucky.
In the months following the death of Kaphengst, Adams was hospitalized for depression and undergoing counseling. Friends said that he owed the IRS over $50,000.
The grave of Chris Adams at the Oak Grove Memorial Gardens in Irving, TX. photo: Hilda Duell
Losing It All
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During the height of his career, Chris Adams was on top of the world. He owned multiple properties and cars. A few months prior to his death, Adams told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “I thought it would never end. I lost it all through divorces, ignorance and mistakes.”
Adams would ultimately lose his life in the drunken altercation on October 7, 2001.
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Chris Adams is buried at the Oak Grove Memorial Gardens in Irving, Texas. The plot is located in the Garden of Faith, Lawn Crypt A-17.