I guess that Texas hold'em has a considerable following, given its coverage on the television and its prominence in online gambling.
But I suspect the other card games I mention are rarely played these days. If they are played, they are consigned to the corners of traditional working men's pubs and clubs, and those are dwindling rapidly.
Yet those card games were the staple diet of the leisure activity of the Milltown Boys, a group of south Wales lads I worked with in the 1970s, when they were neither involved in criminal activity nor playing sports. Cards were dealt on street corners, in the secret attic of what passed for a youth club, and, later on, down the pub. And round my house.
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