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Gin Rummy

2007-07-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

Gin Rummy

Many variations of rummy are known, but for two players the one generally preferred is Gin Rummy with the Hollywood scoring, so called because during the war it was taken up with much publicity by the cinema stars. online poker school

The game is played with a full pack of fifty-two cards that rank from King (high) to Ace (low). The player cut to determine who deals first, but, thereafter, the player who wins a hand deals for the next one.

Ten cards are dealt to each player and the next card is turned face upwards and placed on the table between the players; it is known as the up-card. The rest of the pack is placed faced downwards alongside it.

The object of this poker card game is to meld one’s cards into sets of three or four of the same suit, and into sequences of three or more of the same suit, and into sequences of three or more of the same suit. Sets and sequences must be independent of each other: a player is not allowed to meld the same card into a sequence and a set.

The non-dealer has first choice of taking the up-card into his hand. If he does not, he must offer it to the dealer. If either player takes the up-card, he discards a card from his hand face upwards on the table. If neither player takes the up-card, the non-dealer takes the top card of the stock and discards a card from his hand to cover the up-card. The dealer then has the option of taking into his hand either the card that the non-dealer has discarded or the top card of the stock. When he has taken one of them into his hand, he, too, discards a card from his hand. The discards are placed one on top of the other, so that only the card immediately discarded can be seen, and the discard pile must not be examined by the players while the deal is in play.

Play continues in this way- each player in turn either taking the top card of the discard pile or the top card of the stock- until one of them elects to go down (called knocking) or there are only two cards left in the stock. Neither may be drawn, and if the player who draws the fiftieth card discards without knocking, the deal is declared a draw; neither player scores and the same dealer deals again.

The player who knocks must do so after drawing a card and discarding, and his unmelded cards must not exceed a total of 10 points –court cards count 10 points each and the others their pip values.

A poker card game:Whist

2007-07-23T01:08:00.000-07:00

German Whist is a very simple game. Each player is dealt thirteen cards. The remaining twenty-six cards face downwards between the players and the top card is turned face upward to denote the trump suit.

The non-dealer leads to the first trick. Thereafter the player who wins a trick leads to the next,and so on. A player must follow suite if he can. If he cannot he may either trump or discard. The winner of trick takes into his hand the exposed card from the top pf the stock: the loser takes the next card from the stock and turns up the next card of the stock.

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When the stock is exhausted, the players play out the remaining thirteen cards, and at this stage of the game the player with a good memory will know exactly which cards his opponent holds.

the game is complete in an agreed number of points per trick for all in excess of those won by his opponent. If both players win thirteen tricks, there is, of course, no score.

Although German whist is a simple game it offers good memory training for those who aspire to succeed at more advanced games, and, at the same time, gives exercise in the technique of card play.

If a poker player holds a strong trump suit he should lead his trumps early in the game so as to command the game in the later stages of the play, and if the exposed card is a trump it is always good play to make an effort to win it.

It is advisable to hold command of as many suit as possible, because it enables one to take a trick whenever the exposed card is worth winning, without losing control of the suite.

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Knock Rummy: Poker game

2007-07-09T01:03:00.000-07:00

Knock Rummy

This is a form of rummy, variation in which sets are not declared. The deal ends when a player 'knocks', which he may do whenever it is his turn by laying down his hand. It may contain unmatched cards, which count against him. As in the parent game, court cards count as ten, other cards as their pip value The other players then lay Down their hands, and the player with the lowest total in unmatched cards wins. Cards are not laid off and settlement is made as in the parent game. If the knocker does no twin, he pays an additional ten points to the knocker, he wins, but does not collect from the knocker. If two other players tie, they share the winnings. A player who knocks with a rummy collects a bonus of 25 points from each player. If another player has a rummy, he loses and must pay the knocker the 25-point bonus

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Brag: A popular poker game

2007-07-05T22:56:00.000-07:00

Brag: A form of poker games.

Brag poker is a form of poker which is mostly played in Britain. Brag-poker game is supposed to be the earlier form of poker, you can say Brag-poker is the ancestor of modern poker games. In this poker game three cards are given to each player and betting interval is one. No draw is there. In this game only three classes of hand are there, namely....

pair-royal
highest card
pair

'Braggers' or wild cards were usually used and a hand with a bragger id inferior to one of an equal rank without. Now a days in modernized Brag-poker, straights, normally called 'runs', and Flushes are recognized, wild cards were used normally.

One can make out that a flush can be beaten by run. Run is more frequent than flush, because- as i said earlier- unlike modern five-card poker brag is three-card poker game. A hand is said 'Prial' when it is three of kind. Obviously hand with higher combination wins when rank of hand are equal, prial of Aces is exceptional case. 'A K Q' can usually be beaten by 'A 2 3', as Aces is optionally high or low. To avoid arguments this should be agreed before play begins. The deal passes to the left,the dealer usually places an agreed amount in the 'Kitty', as the pol or pot is known, and players in turn to his left have the choice of dropping, calling or raising. When bets are equalized, there is a showdown, the best hand taking the kitty.

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Tips to winning poker

2007-07-05T02:17:00.000-07:00

Tips From Doyle Brunson
Writer: Doyle Bruson

PAY ATTENTION...and it will pay you

Concentrate on everything when you're playing. Watch and listen ... remember you have to do both, and relate the two. You listen to what your opponent says, but you watch what he's doing independently of what he says because a lot of players talk loose and play tight, and a little later they'll reverse it on you. So you look at a man every time he's involved in a hand. You judge him every time. That's the way you get to know him and his moves. If you aren't learning what you want to know just by watching and listening, create your own opportunity. Try to bluff at him the first good opportunity, and see if he'll call you or not what kind of hand he'll call with, and what kind he'll throw away. Of course, anybody with a lick of sense is trying to keep you from reading him. But you can still figure him because it is very, very difficult for any man to conceal his character. A man's true feelings come out in a Poker game You'll see smart lawyers playing Poker and giggling and carrying on like school kids. And a man's hostilities can boil over after a while, too. Watch a ballgame with a man when he's betting a lot of money on it. You'll learn what kind of temperament he's got, how well he can take disappointment. That's the way it is with Poker.

If you wanted to use Poker just for a test of character, solely to learn about the men you'll have to deal with away from the Poker table, it would be a telling test. As a matter of fact, isn't that what a lot of Friday night Poker games between business acquaintances are really all about? Size them up at the Friday night Poker sessions ... and then take advantage of them during the next business week. This brings us to another subtlety of Poker: Not everybody you're going to play against thinks the way you do. Almost everybody wants to win, but they expect to win in different ways.

PLAY AGGRESSIVELY, it's the winning way

There's a very well known Poker player, a man who enters the World Series of Poker every year, who has a talent for figuring out exactly what your hand is. But when he decides that you're holding a Pair of Jacks (in Hold 'em) and his own hand will not beat the Jacks, he'll try to make you throw your hand away. To me, that's not being aggressive ... that's being stupid. It works sometimes, but should you jeopardize your money when you think your opponent's got a
good hand? Let him win the pot and wait till you think he doesn't have much of anything. That's when you can try to bluff him out of the pot. Or wait until you think you have him beat. Everybody in Poker thinks he knows what a tight player is, but I'm going to define it again because so many people confuse the term "tight" with "solid". "Tight" means conservative. A tight player is a player that is tight pretty much all the time. But a "solid" player is a player who's tight about entering a pot in the first place ... but after he enters the pot he becomes aggressive.

Most good players, by the way, are solid. The opposite of the tight player, as you would imagine from the name, is the loose player. He'll play most of the pots. Often he'll be drunk. You need patience to play him, and you require a good hand to bet because he'll call you with extremely weak hands. The perfect opponent to face is the Calling Station. He's similar to a loose drunk player, but he rarely bets. Most of the time, he just checks and calls. And if you cant beat a man who always checks to you ... you can't beat anyone.

"Mistakes" according to Theorem of Poker

2007-06-01T03:02:00.000-07:00

It is very important to understand that when we talk about making a mistake accoring to the fundamental Theorem of Poker, we're not necessarily talking about playing badly. We're talking about a very strange kind of mistake- Playing differently from the way you would if you could see all your opponents's flush, that player is making a mistake to call me. But a player surerly cannot be acused of plaing badly by calling or, as is mich more likely, raising with a king-high staright flush. Since he doesn't know what i have, he is making a mistake in a different sense of the world.
In advanced poker you are constantly trying to make your opponent or opponents play in a way that would be incorrect if they knew what you had. Anytime they play in the right way on the basis of what you have, you have not gained a thing. According to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, you play winning poker by playing as closely as possible to the way you would play if you could see all your opponents's cards; and you try to make your opponents play as far away from this Utopian level as possible. The first goal is accomplished mainly by reading hands and players accuretely, because the closer you can come to figuring out someone else's hand, the fewer Fundamental Theorem poker mistakes you will make. The second goal is accomplished by playing deceptively.

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Poker- Rules for misdeals.

2007-05-03T01:26:00.000-07:00

Poker is a game at which large sums of money can change hands, so it is as well to agree a procedure for those irregularities that can happen by accident even practiced card players. The following are recommended action for certain situation.

Misdeals

A deal counts as a misdeal if any of the following happens.

Some cards are found not to be included in the pack.
some cards in the pack are discovered to be faced, i.e. are face up rather than face down.
Any player points out that the cards weren't properly shuffled and cut.
The dealer accidentally drops and faces cards.
More than one player has the wrong number of cards.

The deal is cancelled and the dealer loses his turn. The deal passes to the next player. The cards must be shuffled and cut again before the new deal. Any antes in the pot remain, and are duplicated by the antes properly made for the next pot. By prior agreement, misdeals cancelled because of the dealer's error may insure a fine on him, say one chip to each player.

Other errors are less serious and do not result in a misdeal.

If a dealer makes a mistakes during the deal which can be easily rectified, such as accidentally dealing a card to the wrong player, he can correct it by transferring the card as necessary.
If a dealer omits a player in the deal he must give his own hand to the omitted player. If he deals a hand too many, the excess hand becomes dead, i.e. it is discarded and put to one side.
Players should count their cards before looking at them, and if a player finds he has a card too few, the dealer should give him the top card of the pack. if a player has a card too many, the last card dealt is returned to dealer and is dead.

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