Posts Tagged ‘deal’

Bridge game play

Posted by Nicolae on November 13th, 2008 under Bridge
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Two partnerships of two players each are needed to play bridge. The four players sit around a table with partners opposite one another. The compass directions are often used to refer to the four players, aligned with their seating pattern. Thus, South and North form one partnership and East and West [...]

Casino war

Posted by Nicolae on October 26th, 2008 under Gambling variants
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Casino war is a casino card game based on the children’s game of War. The game is arguably one of the most easily understood casino card games, but it also has a relatively large house edge compared to other games.The game is normally played with six standard 52 card decks. The cards [...]

World Poker Tour

Posted by Nicolae on July 7th, 2008 under Poker, Poker tournaments Guide, Tournaments
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World Poker Tour

Sport
Texas Hold ‘em

Founded
2002

Commissioner
Steven Lipscomb

Motto
“May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters” (Unofficial)

No. of teams
No officially recognized teams

Country(ies)
United States (Founded)

Most recent
champion(s)
David Chiu, 2008 WPT Championship

TV partner(s)
Travel Channel, NBC, GSN

Official website
www.WorldPokerTour.com

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the world’s professional players. It was [...]

Poker jargon - D

Posted by Nicolae on July 6th, 2008 under Poker, Poker jargon
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dark
Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled. I’m drawing three, and I check in the dark. Compare to “blind”.
dead blind
A blind that is not “live”, in that the player posting it does not have the option to raise if other players [...]

Sheepshead

Posted by Nicolae on June 28th, 2008 under Sheepshead, games
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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 [...]

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 [...]