ANTE CACHE Traditional Cache

In this game, players will collect a total of 5 cards and from these cards, the player will compile the best 3 card poker hand.

In order to enter the game, each player will go to the location of this cache, aptly named the “ANTE CACHE” and put in their ante.

The required ante consists of some item that would make a suitable prize for the winner of the game. This item must have a value of AT LEAST $5.00. This will make winning the game a worthwhile and fun pursuit. As the game will be limited to the first 15 players, the total value of the items in the ANTE CACHE should equal or exceed $75.00.

I have provided a suitably large container for the collection of the Antes from each player, hereinafter called collectively THE POT.

Once a player has anted into the game, they may collect one of the fifteen numbered envelopes in the ANTE CACHE. Each of these fifteen envelopes contains three randomly shuffled and dealt cards from one deck of cards. I have, of course, documented the contents of each envelope to prevent any ideas of card swapping.

Players are not required to take the envelopes in any specific order. You may select any of the envelopes, just so long as you only take one envelope. Only one envelope per Geocaching moniker. No double playing. If you encounter an envelope in the cache that has been damaged or otherwise tampered with, please contact me immediately and I will either replace or begin an intensive criminal investigation.

In logging your “Find” of this cache, you will reveal to me and others the envelope number you chose and the ante you have placed in the cache. This way people will know what they are playing for. Players placing insufficient antes will be publicly shunned and generally brow-beaten into compliance. You will, at the time of logging, select this cache for your Watch list in order to see what is being anted up and for another reason to be discussed later.

After one week, I will place a second cache that will contain a second set of numbered envelopes. In each of these envelopes will be one card, bringing your card total to 4. You will log this cache similarly, telling me which numbered envelope you retrieved.

After yet another week, I will place a third cache that will contain a third set of numbered envelopes, all containing one card. This will bring your card total to 5. You will report your envelope number in the usual manner through your log of the cache. Envelopes must be retrieved in the order of the caches. You MUST have an envelope from the ANTE CACHE in order to get one from the 2nd cache and likewise the third. While you are not required to use the last 2 cards as part of your hand, you are nevertheless required to log all three caches and select an envelope from all three caches.

It will be from these final 5 cards that you will compile and submit your best 3 card Poker hand. At the completion of the 3rd cache (on a date set on the 3rd Cache’s web page), the winner of the game, along with all the available player hands will be announced on the ANTE CACHE page (this is the other reason why you selected it for your Watch list). The winner will then be allowed to go to the ANTE CACHE and collect THE POT and generally rub their loot in the faces of other players. The container and cache shall remain as a regular cache after THE POT has been removed.

Players may enter the game as long as their envelopes available at the ANTE CACHE and up until the game concludes as listed on the 3rd Cache’s web site. This way, people are not penalized for coming into the game at a later point. Non-players are welcome to log any of the caches while the game is going on just please do not bother the envelopes that remain in the caches as part of the game. Regular trading items are welcome in the 2nd and 3rd caches during the game itself by all cachers. The Ante cache is a no-trading cache during the duration of the game to protect the ANTEs from wandering off.

The rank of winning poker hands in 3 card poker is as follows from lowest card hand to the highest:

HIGH CARD - no pair, highest card in the hand
PAIR – a pair of any suit. Same suited pairs beat non-same-suited pairs of the same number.
FLUSH – All three cards the same suit, any numbers. High card distinguishes between Flushes.
STRAIGHT - Three cards in numerical order. Aces can be high or low. Suit does not matter. Highest Card in Straight distinguishes between straights.
THREE OF A KIND – 3 similarly numbered cards, any suit. Same suited three cards beats non-same-suited three cards of the same number.
STRAIGHT FLUSH – Three cards numerically in order and suited the same. Highest Card in the Straight distinguishes between Straight Flushes.
ROYAL STRAIGHT FLUSH – Three cards in a row, suited the same, consisting of straights of 10, Jack, Queen, King, or Ace. Highest Card in the Straight distinguishes between Royal Straight Flushes.

Since we are using 2 decks of cards, it is possible to have 2 identical cards (same number and suit) in a hand. A same suited, same numbered pair will beat a same numbered, differently suited pair.

At the conclusion of the game, all three caches will revert to regular caches. Trade items are welcome from all cachers during and after the game.

Comments or questions are welcome. All questions or disputes will be fielded by a panel consisting of myself, my wife, and out two Chihuahuas, both of which have law degrees from a fairly good Mexican Law School. Our decisions are beyond reproach. We are wise and learned in the ways of Poker games that we have made up.

We give credit for the inspiration behind this game to Utah’s CacheUNuts.

You cannot park within over 500 feet of the cache. I suggest parking around N 38 14.916, W 085 41.810 and walking the rest. JBF

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