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Card games in Portugal

French suited cards (hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades) are in general use. The special type of Latin cards with dragons on the aces, known to collectors as Portuguese pattern cards, have long been obsolete. However, the memory of these cards lingers in that some games (such as Sueca) rank the court cards in the order king-jack-queen instead of king-queen-jack, presumably because the jack and queen were thought to correspond to the knight and maid respectively in the Latin suited cards.

Popular Portuguese games include:

The World Casino Directory includes a listing of Casinos in Portugal.

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