Hawaiian Playing Card Game

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91. Pe-pa-ha-kau

Foriegn Playing Cards

[Page 246] Foreign playing-cards are used. Poker is a favorite game.

Five cards are dealt around and the highest hand wins. A player not getting a pair is out of the game.

Pe-pa, "cards, "is the English "paper." 

Ha-kau means "fighting."



Last update February 3, 2010