Poker Bluff is a game easily learned but rarely mastered. The basic rules of the game have been enumerated and discussed many times before, so we will not waste time by setting them out again here. More seasoned players will no doubt be thoroughly familiar with the full set of rules, available from the game's governing body in a 27-volume gift set with optional display case and floor-reinforcing kit, but it may prove more helpful to illustrate the rules of engagement by following a couple of games from start to finish. Both games were played to a sold-out house on that Mecca for Poker Bluff players everywhere, the Isle of Mull.

Game 1: Mathias Olaf Uncertain versus Virgil Ellipse: 22nd-23rd May 2003, Scoor, Isle of Mull

Game 2: Mathias Olaf Uncertain versus Virgil Ellipse: 23rd May 2003, Scoor, Isle of Mull

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