What is your favorite card game?

I can remember sitting in the living room as a small child while my dad and his friends played poker. It wasn't a weekly ritual, but it did happen pretty regularly. They were not the stereotypical group of poker playing men. There was no cigar smoke swirling overhead. They did enjoy a beer or two though. They played on a flimsy little card table or sometimes at the dining room table. I'm sure they would have loved to have had one of those really nice poker tables, but they made do with what they had on hand. Those are some good memories for me. I learned how to cheat....................ummmm I mean play..............poker watching them.