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Bouillotte is an 18th-century French gambling card game of the Revolution based on Brelan,David Parlett, Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, p. 30, Oxford University Press (1996) very popular during the 19th century in France and again for some years from 1830. It was also popular in United States. The game is regarded as one of the games that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker.Shamshad Ahmed, Dictionary Of Games, p. 33, Isha Books (2006) The rules continue to be printed in French gaming compendia.
To determine where a person sits, a sequence of cards is taken out of the deck, equal to the number of players (e.g., with 4 players, an ace, king, queen, and nine are taken, etc.) They are shuffled, and each player draws one. The player with the ace chooses where to sit first, etc. First dealer is the player with the king.
Before the deal each player "antes" one counter to the pot, after which each, the "age" passing, may "raise" the pot; those not "seeing the raise" being obliged to drop out. Three cards are dealt to each player, and a thirteenth, called the retourné, when four play, turned up. Each player must then bet, call, raise or drop out. When a call is made the hands are shown and the best hand wins. The hands rank as follows:
If no player holds a brélan, the hand holding the greatest number of pips wins. All hands are turned face up, including those of players who dropped. The face values of all these cards are totalled for each suit, ace counting 11, court cards 10 and numerals their face value. The "best suit" is the one with the highest visible total, and the player holding the highest card of it wins the pot, provided that he has not previously dropped. If he has, the winner is the player counting the greatest face value of cards in any other suit.
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