{"id":388,"date":"2024-03-17T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=388"},"modified":"2024-03-17T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:03:51","password":"","slug":"screw-yourself","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/pri\/screw-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><h2>The Game <\/h2> The name is derived from the oft-quoted phrase when a player turns up a high spade in the course of building a poker hand.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>\n\n<p><h2>The Deal<\/h2> As in Night Baseball; 7 cards all face down.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>\n\n<p><h2>The Play<\/h2> As in <a href=\"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/pri\/night-baseball\/\">Night Baseball<\/a>\n, each player begins flipping their cards over one at a time until they have beaten the best hand. 3&#8217;s and 9&#8217;s are wild for the cost of an ante. No extra cards are given for a turned 4. On their turn, each player has the option of standing pat on their unturned hand; they must continue to bet in turn, but do not turn cards for the rest of the game. If a player has turned all cards, but does not have the highest hand, they must fold.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>\n\n<p><h2>Ending the Game<\/h2> Play continues clockwise until all players are folded, high hand, or standing on unturned cards. This usually results in several unturned cards left on the table; the player with the highest spade unturned splits the pot with the high hand.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>\n\n<p><h3>Irregularities<\/h3> It is possible for the player with the highest poker hand to also have the highest spade down. The player lucky enough to have this happen sweeps the pot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game The name is derived from the oft-quoted phrase when a player turns up a high spade in the course of building a poker hand. The Deal As in Night Baseball; 7 cards all face down. The Play As in Night Baseball , each player begins flipping their cards over one at a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[12],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-388","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-games"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":202,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"ph18003436161","author_nicename":"ph18003436161","author_url":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/author\/ph18003436161\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Games of the PRI","term_url":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/pri-category\/games\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/388\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejstrehl.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}