The game is played with a standard 52-card deck, aces high and two to seven players. With seven players, only three cards may be discarded (so as to not have to re-use them for later players). After every player antes, the dealer passes out five cards to each player, one at a time. In a traditional game, the dealer flips their own fifth card – the last dealt – and that card's suit is considered trumps (in Boureki "kozia" or "atoy"). As in Spades, the chosen suit beats all others; a two of trumps is "higher" in rank than an ace of any other suit.