Five-card stud

April 4th, 2009

Five-card stud is probably the earliest form of the card game, stud poker, originating during the American Civil War, but is less commonly played today than seven-card stud and other games. It is still a popular game in a few locations such as South Africa (where it is played with a stripped [...]

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Poker probability for Texas hold ‘em

March 13th, 2009

In poker, the probability of many events can be determined by direct calculation. This article discusses how to compute the probabilities for many commonly occurring events in the game of Texas hold ‘em and provides some probabilities and odds[1] for specific situations. In most cases, the probabilities and odds are approximations [...]

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Kot bo sitah

March 3rd, 2009

Kot bo sitah is a card game famous in the Arab world. It depends on putting a cap on a number and it is played by six people. The spades is usually the strongest thing to play with. The game depends on giving each player a set of random cards and he [...]

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Ten and a half

February 10th, 2009

Ten and a half is a card game with rules very similar to blackjack. The game is popular in China and is usually used for gambling.
Rules
The rules are very similar to blackjack, with the following exceptions:

A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are worth their face points. J, Q and [...]

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Croupier

January 22nd, 2009

A croupier (in European usage) or dealer (in American usage) is a person who takes and pays out bets or otherwise assists at a gambling table, often in a casino. In American usage, dealer may imply a card game, but this is not always the case. For example it is common to [...]

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Fan-Tan

November 25th, 2008

Fan-Tan, or fantan (Simplified Chinese: 番摊; Traditional Chinese: 番攤; pinyin: fāntān) is a form of gambling long played in China and among Chinese immigrants to America and other countries.
History
Fan-tan is no longer as popular as it once was, having been replaced by modern casino games, and other traditional Chinese games such as Mah Jong and Pai Gow. [...]

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Card counting

August 15th, 2008

Card counting is a card game strategy used to determine when a player has a probability advantage. The term is used almost exclusively to refer to the tracking of the ratio of high cards to low cards in blackjack, although theoretically card counting can be used in some other card games.
How card [...]

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Anaconda Poker

July 20th, 2008

Anaconda is a variety of the card game Poker, also called “Pass The Trash Poker.”
Simple Play
This version of the game is also called “3-2-1 Anaconda” or “3-2-1 Left.”
Each player is dealt 6 cards. They then each select 3 cards to be passed to the player on their left. These cards are simply set [...]

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Blind Hookey

July 13th, 2008

Blind Hookey is a card game played with a full pack of cards, sometimes used for the purpose of gambling.The players, of whom there may be any number, cut for deal, the lowest having the preference. The pack is then shuffled by the player on the dealer’s right hand, and afterwards, if [...]

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The card game of bingo

July 8th, 2008

Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values. The cards on the [...]

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Baccarat

July 1st, 2008

Baccarat is a gambling card game. It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of Charles VIII of France (ruled 1483-1498), and it is similar to Faro and to Basset. There are three accepted variants of the game: baccarat chemin de fer (railway), baccarat banque [...]

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Sheepshead

June 28th, 2008

Eichel (acorn)
Grün (green)
Rot (red)
Schellen (bells)

Club
Spade
Heart
Diamond

Sheepshead is a card game related to the Skat family of games, originating in Central Europe in the late 1700’s under the German name Schafkopf. Although Schafkopf literally means “sheepshead”, the term is actually derived from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on an overturned [...]

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Poker

June 12th, 2008

Poker Room at the Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the player or players with the [...]

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