Guts card game

Guts is a comparing card game, or family of card games, related to poker. Hand are ranked similarly to hands in poker. All players decide whether they are "in" or "out", and announce this at the same time. Each deal has its own showdown, after which the losers match or increase the pot, which grows rapidly. A round of the game ends when only one person stays in and wins the pot. The pot can double or more each round, and pots of 50 or 100 times the original ante are possible. In some variants, rather than a dummy, you must have a pair or better. In others, the dummy always plays against the other hands, and may be called "Granny" or 'Granny's' hands. The name for the 23 hand, in this variation, is called the "Royal Crumpler", among other names. Some variants include a dummy that must be beaten if the other player stays in. Some variations do not count for three-card guts, and straights and flushes don't count for two-cards guts.