Card Games For Dummies
Card Games For Dummies

Author: Barry Rigal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1118054768

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Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story. With Card Games For Dummies, Second Edition, you’ll not only be able to play the hottest card games around, you can also apply game-winning strategies and tips to have fun and beat your opponents. Now updated, this hands-on guide shows you everything you need to know—the basics, the tricks, and the techniques—to become a master card player, with expanded coverage on poker as well as online gaming and tournaments. Soon you will have the card-playing power to: Pin down your opponents in Texas Hold’em Show off your power in Stud Poker Hit wisely in Blackjack Break hearts ruthlessly in Hearts Mix up the night with Gin and Rummy Build yourself a victory in Bridge Send them fishing in Go Fish This straightforward, no-nonsense guide features great ways to improve your game and have more fun, as well as a list of places to find out more about your favorite game. It also profiles different variations of each game, making you a player for all seasons!

How To Win At Gin Rummy
How To Win At Gin Rummy

Author: Pramod Shankar

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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What makes gin rummy winners win? Since the game first emerged in North America nearly a century ago, players have had to rely solely on experience, instinct, and trial and error to faintly grasp the principle behind winning. Avid card player and mathematical analyst Pramod Shankar, PhD is the first to subject gin rummy to the kind of scientific scrutiny that long ago transformed the games of bridge and blackjack. He shares his discoveries in How to Win at Gin Rummy, an easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement guide that is virtually guaranteed to lift the level of anyone's game-and to increase winnings for money players. Readers will learn: • How to analyze a gin hand • Effective playing strategies and psychological ploys • The ten Golden Rules of Rummy • A simple, step-by-step approach to figuring out an opponent's hand • The logic behind lucky streaks • Useful odds and statistics • And much more! With clear and comprehensible explanations of the basics of play for the beginner, and a wealth of more advanced playing strategies for experienced players, How to Win at Gin rummy will help readers win consistently-and win more money-especially against players who don't know the facts available exclusively in this book!

Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy

Author: Samuel Fry

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1978-06-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780486236308

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Clear, well-written instructions and numerous illustrations of card hands. Basic rules and scoring systems, customs, methods of play. For the experienced player, Fry discusses odds, percentage play, discarding, forcing a draw, "advertising," taking cards "on spec," and much more.

Card Games Properly Explained
Card Games Properly Explained

Author: Arnold Marks

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0716022591

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If you have never played cards before, this book is the ideal introduction. Or if you have a basic idea of the rules of some games, it will help you extend your existing knowledge and add new games to your repertoire. You will learn all the basic rules, understand the reasons why players play certain cards, discover the winning strategies and always be able to play the right card at the right time. The book covers all the most popular card games, including: Whist, Solo, Napoleon, Clobbiosh, Belot, Black Maria, Piquet, Five Hundred, Poker, Brag, Cassino, Rummy, Kaluki, Gin Rummy, Canasta, Cribbage and Pontoon.

Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy

Author: George Fraed

Publisher: Lyle Stuart

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780818405938

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Expert George Fraed's book gives readers all they need to play and win at gin rummy, including the language of the game, conventional gin and other related games, knowing your opponent and analyzing play, game strategy, partnership gin, and more. Both beginners and experts will learn from "Gin Rummy: How to Play and How to Win", whether they are playing just for fun or anteing up for serious bets.

The Penguin Book of Card Games
The Penguin Book of Card Games

Author: David Parlett

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-08-07

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 0141916109

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The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.

Hoyle's Rules of Games
Hoyle's Rules of Games

Author: Philip D. Morehead

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780451204844

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Provides rules, strategies, and odds for card, indoor, and computer games.

Scarne on Card Games
Scarne on Card Games

Author: John Scarne

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780486436036

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In addition to complete rules and instructions for playing dozens of games, tables of probabilities and percentages, and the fine points of winning play, this book — one of the best on the subject — also contains some 60 pages of information on how to detect cheating.