Card Games For Dummies

Covers live, tournament, and Internet Poker The fun and easy way® to play and win the most popular card games! Card sharks of the world beware! With this plain–English guide, you′ll not only understand how to play top card games like Blackjack, Bridge, and Gin Rummy, you′ll also get expert strategies you need to win! Plus, there′s expanded coverage of Poker favorites such as Texas Hold ′Em, Omaha, Draw, and Stud. You′ll score, deal, and play like the pros in no time! Discover how to Improve your card–playing skills Develop a winning strategy Play regional game variations Find and play cards online Teach kids to play responsibly Get the inside deal on these games and more! Blackjack Bridge Canasta Cribbage Draw Poker Eights Euchre Fan Tan 500 Rummy Gin Rummy Go Fish Hearts Oh Hell! Omaha Palace Pinochle President Setback Snap Solitaire Spades Spit Stud Poker Texas Hold ′Em Whist

Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Discovering Card Games. Chapter 1: Card Game Basics. Chapter 2: Solitaire. Chapter 3: Children’s Games. Part II: Getting Rid of Cards. Chapter 4: Rummy. Chapter 5: Canasta. Chapter 6: Eights. Chapter 7: Fan Tan. Part III: Taking Tricks. Chapter 8: Whist. Chapter 9: Oh Hell! and Other Exact Bidding Games. Chapter 10: Euchre. Chapter 11: Spades. Chapter 12: Contract Bridge and Mini–Bridge. Part IV: Scoring or Avoiding Points. Chapter 13: Hearts. Chapter 14: Pinochle. Chapter 15: Setback. Part V: Adding and Climbing. Chapter 16: Cribbage. Chapter 17: President. Chapter 18: Blackjack. Part VI: Playing Poker. Chapter 19: Shuffling Through Poker Basics. Chapter 20: Draw Poker. Chapter 21: Stud Poker. Chapter 22: Texas Hold ’Em. Chapter 23: Omaha. Part VII: The Part of Tens. Chapter 24: Ten Ways to Improve Your Game and Have More Fun. Chapter 25: Ten Places to Find More Information on Your Game. Index.

Barry Rigal was born with a deck of cards in his hand. Having started with the children’s games, Whist, Rummy, and Solitaire, he moved on to Bridge at the age of 12. After graduating from Oxford University (where he captained the Bridge team), he worked in accountancy. Highlights of his work career were learning how to play Piquet and Clobyosh in the Tax Department of Thomson McLintock. After four years with Price Waterhouse, supervising the partnership’s Bridge team, he went into the world of business, working seven years in the Oil Taxation department of Conoco. During that time he began a career as a journalist and commentator on card games. Over the course of the last two decades he has written newspaper and magazine articles and six books on Bridge.