re: Booray Card Game

Bourrée was popular amongst people who worked on the River in the '80s & '90s.

Love the game. Ex GF was from Delcambre. All of those cajuns played. Good times

Interesting.

It is basically the same as spades or hearts but the dealer turns over his last card and that suit is the Trump

ETA
It was banned offshore and on the crew boats because guys were losing too much money and it became an HR problem

We played every lunch break at a particular plant in Plaquemine for the entire time we could.

I played some in a bar years ago. I was up big then Bouree 6 times in a row. I said frick it and never played there again. They all split the pot when I walked away. Cheating mother frickers. I could understand 2 times in a row but 6? They got me good.

It's more like spades than hearts.

Sounds like you should've passed, at least once in those 6 times. If you won big but then lost 6 times in a row, you just got greedy when you should've played tighter (or you didn't know what you're doing). I learned the game as a kid, it's not very difficult to understand the minimum cards to decide pass/play, not even considering strategy of sequencing once you're in the game.

Of course, my grandmother and great uncle (her brother) were the best and could squeeze out a "2 trick winner" with ease, so maybe I'm biased. My great uncle paid his children's Catholic school tuition playing bourre while at McDermott. We have a standing Tuesday night game at my great aunt's house with 6-8 family/neighbors.

Not greedy. Just playing for fun. I probably should have passed on a couple hands but even with good trumps, i couldnt get a trick. It was mind boggling to me at the time after 3 straight. At 6 I was like something odd is going on.