Posts Tagged ‘Card games’

Blind Hookey

Posted by Nicolae on November 4th, 2008 under Lottery card games
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HTML clipboardBlind 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, [...]

Poker variants

Posted by Nicolae on June 26th, 2008 under Poker, Poker variants Guide
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The card game of poker has many variations, most of them created in the United States in the mid-1900s. The standard order of play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which hand values are used, the number of betting rounds, and [...]

Blackjack

Posted by Nicolae on June 24th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, games
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Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting (keeping track of which cards have been played since the last shuffle). [...]

Card games

Posted by Nicolae on June 22nd, 2008 under Card games, games
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A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific.
The deck or pack
A card game is played with a deck (common in the US), or pack (common in the UK), of cards intended for that game. The deck consists of a fixed number of pieces of printed cardboard known as [...]