$10 · Poch Wooden Game Board. The original Poker game!

Meet up mornings at London Drugs on Yates. Firm price . It is in the original box from Germany, with the original sheet of German rules. A printed copy of extensive English rules from the web is included also. As you can see by the photo of one for sale at one of those famous auction sites it is $145 CDN before shipping! The wood board is in new condition, it measures 10.25” diameter and is 2/3” thick and weighs 2/3 pound. There are no chips or scratches. My family members that played it used small beads as tokens but you can use macaroni or the very small plastic game chips that are made. The beads go with it if you want them, also a bag of about 50 small cardboard playing chips. Poch, Pochen or Pochspiel is a very old card game that is considered one of the forerunners of poker, a game that developed in America in the 19th century. An etymological relationship between the game names is also assumed. Games related to Poch are the French Glic and Nain Jaune and the English Pope Joan. Wikipedia Cards: 32 or 52 Origin: Germany Play: Anticlockwise INTRODUCTION OF POCH Poch is a casino style gambling game that dates clear back to 1441. Unlike Newmarket or Pope Joan, Poch is played over three phases during each round, and it includes elements of poker that allow for bluffing to occur. https://gamerules.com/rules/poch/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/63497/pochspiel https://tomsk3000.com/product/1950s-poch-pochen-pochspiel-wooden-game-board-germany/