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theres different types and styles of Italian cards that we play with
1) Napoletane cards.. (which are the ones i use and are mostly used for brisk and scoppa... 40 cards in a deck.. briefly disscused in teh thread "card decks"
2) Tristen Cards.. came across theses one day they are different than the ones i used... but heres a pic of them aswell
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Nice, those cards are very unique. Of course it has nothing to do with it, but they sure do look like them Tarot cards! Do you know which ones I´m talking about?
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in the 1st picture the 2 cards on the top left are suns.. the ace and 4 2 on top right are cup... thats the 6 and the queen bottom 2 on left is swords with the 5 and jack (which in most cases is higher than the queen) and bottom 2 on the right are "bastones" with the 3 and king
and the 2nd picture im not to familiar with the deck but im sure its very similiar just different stlye of cards
------------ fodz.. im pretty sure that tarrot cards were created in italy...
All evidence indicates that the first tarot decks were created between 1410 and 1430 in either Milan, Ferrara, or Bologna, in northern Italy, when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the more common four-suit decks that already existed.
so they were very largely based on those cards.. very nice catch tho
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Do you know if the tarot cards from back then, were already used for fortune-telling, or did this superstitious aspect was introduced later on? Wow, I must say that this poker forum is filled with knowledge, culture and great wisdom! Wow, congratulations bankrollmob forum!
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hahah no one really knowns when tarot cards where used for divination but apparently there was some book in the 1500's that was used for that... which jus used regular decks for that...
but when they were created at 1st they were just a very large card deck taht the italians used to play with...
some guy wrote a book about how tarot cards can be used for divination and it was taken from there..
alot of people dont know this about the tarot cards.. the think it was created by the egyptians cuz gypies are connected with using them..
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Heh but u cant play poker with those cards i bet ? there are some traditional games probably ? its probably some root from old generation as its like in slovakia we have too some kind of "specific cards" to play other typef of card games
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hahaha cant let down the suns eh? gotta represent them!!! haha the game brisk is a really good game.. but it can be comfusing at 1st..
do any of you know how to play eucher? its very similar to eucher... the top cards are...
Ace (11 pts), Three(10 pts), King (4), Jack (3), Queen (2)..
but in scopa,... you get a point if you have the most suns, AND the 7 of suns is another point lol only suit that give you points so suns are an important suit
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Posted by xxxitaliaxxx13: do you have any pics of those cards? i would like to see pics of them... and waht kinda of games do you play with them
heh i dont think so i didnt find it on google well and i dont have any pics of it i dont even saw it for a long time since its pretty old thing and i dont think some of oldies will upload it to the internet heh lol but i never played games with them just i know they exist ..
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ahhh mayb ill check on the net and see if i can fidn somethin cuz lil trivial things like that i really like to read up on and store it lol im the King of "did you know" trivia lol
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Oh, I did not know that! Nice, whenever I find something trivial I´ll be sure to send it your way. I´ll post them up on the Trivia threads. Maybe in a couple of months the forum will have a nice database of trivial facts, poker and off topic.
? there are some traditional games probably ? its probably some root from old generation as its like in slovakia we have too some kind of "specific cards" to play other typef of card games
and i dont think some of oldies will upload it to the internet 
heh lol but i never played games with them just i know they exist ..
