In the OP, Crumb says we start with 30
lorins each. I suppose this is a typo, as we only appear to have 20.
This game seems similar to three card brag, as it's called in the UK, except that there are no community cards in three card brag - just three cards dealt to each player. In brag, however, there is an option for players to not look at their cards - they are then said to be 'playing blind' and this gives them the privilege of only putting half as many chips in the pot as those players who are not blind.