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Card Games For Dummies
The perfect book for when you’re ready to move beyond 52-card pickup Feeling rummy? Ready to bridge the gap? In the mood to go fish? Card Games For Dummies is your source for rules, strategy, and fun. You’ll learn everything you need to know to play and win at your family’s favorite games, plus a bunch of others that are probably new to you.
Texas Hold'em For Dummies
The most fun you can have learning Texas Hold’em (and we ain’t bluffin’) Playing Texas Hold’em is about the most fun you can have with two cards in your hand. Navigating the slang, rules, and intricacies of the game can be challenging, though. With Texas Hold’em For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you’ll learn the tricks you need to know to win your first online or in-person game.
Article / Updated 07-09-2019
Oh Hell! is based on taking tricks. During gameplay, players take turns putting a card face-up on the table. The person who plays the highest card wins and collects all the played cards — one trick. The winner of the trick plays the first card to start the next trick. The process continues until all the cards play out.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
Call them rules, conventions, or Poker etiquette, some guidelines are common to all forms of Poker, especially Poker in card clubs or casinos. Although you may find some minor variations from one casino to another, many card casinos are working diligently toward a uniform set of guidelines. Going all-in If you don't have enough to cover the bets and raises, you are said to go all-in and are simply contesting that portion of the pot your money covers.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
Poker Patience is, in theory, an undemanding Solitaire card game. It takes only a minute or two to play, and you can approach the game frivolously or seriously.To start, you need to know the ranks of Poker hands (in other words, what beats what). In ascending order, the ranks are as follows: One pair: Two of a kind Two pair: Such as two 5s and two 10s Three of a kind: Also known as trips Straight: Five cards in consecutive order; for example, ace through 5 or 7 to jack Flush: Five cards of the same suit Full house: Combination of three of a kind and a pair Four of a kind: Also known as quads Straight flush: A straight with all the cards in the same suit Aces can be either high or low — your choice.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
Before you start enjoying the various card games of Solitaire, you need to know a little technical vocabulary. After you build your own foundation of Solitaire knowledge, you can begin to explore the many variations of the game. When you initially deal the cards, the pattern is known as a layout or tableau. The layout can consist of rows (horizontal lines of cards), columns (vertical lines), or piles of cards (a compact heap, frequently of face-down cards, sometimes with the top card face-up).
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
First and foremost, Bridge is a partnership game; you swim together and you sink together. Your opponents are in the same boat. In Bridge, you don't score points individually — you score points as a team. Each hand of Bridge is divided into four acts, which occur in the same order: Act 1: Dealing The game starts with each player seated facing his or her partner.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
In today's massive casinos, five-star hotels merge with gargantuan, themed buildings, encompassing entire city blocks and housing restaurants, bars, theaters, nightclubs, gaming tables, slot machines, ATMs, snack bars, gift shops, and even the occasional theme park. A casino's security division, therefore, must function much like the police department of an entire town.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
Just as the sun is the center of the solar system, the table games rest in the middle of the casino system, attracting visitors ever inward and at the same time providing the main source of energy and vitality to the floor. Table games are grouped together into areas known in casino lingo as pits.The pits are separated from slot machines, restaurants, and other casino functions by a wide aisle, allowing nonplayers to watch the action and vicariously enjoy the thrill of turning over the winning card or nailing the winning roll.
Article / Updated 01-31-2017
One of the main variations on the card game Oh Hell! is called Romanian Whist, for the surprisingly good reason that it comes from Romania. In fact, the game is called plain old Whist in that country.To play Romanian Whist, you need the following: At least three players: You can play with up to eight players.