Card Games For Dummies
2nd Edition
Published on 11. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7645-9910-1 (ISBN)
Description
The card shark's favorite-now revised and expanded with 30 percent new content, including lots more poker coverage
Card games, especially poker, are more popular than ever. This fun and easy guide not only explains the rules of favorite card games-from blackjack, bridge, and gin rummy to euchre, hearts, and spades-but also maps out the strategies players need to win! For this new edition, professional card player Barry Rigal offers expanded coverage of poker games, including favorites like Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, and Draw. The book also includes a revised and expanded section on children's games, complete with tips for parents on teaching kids how to play responsibly.
Barry Rigal (New York, NY) teaches bridge, plays it professionally, and writes about the game for newspapers and bridge publications.
Card games, especially poker, are more popular than ever. This fun and easy guide not only explains the rules of favorite card games-from blackjack, bridge, and gin rummy to euchre, hearts, and spades-but also maps out the strategies players need to win! For this new edition, professional card player Barry Rigal offers expanded coverage of poker games, including favorites like Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, and Draw. The book also includes a revised and expanded section on children's games, complete with tips for parents on teaching kids how to play responsibly.
Barry Rigal (New York, NY) teaches bridge, plays it professionally, and writes about the game for newspapers and bridge publications.
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Product info
PB
Edition
2., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23.2 cm
Width: 19 cm
Thickness: 2.2 cm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7645-9910-1 (9780764599101)
Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Barry Rigal
Card Games For Dummies
Book
11/1997
Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
€39.80
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Person
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.
Content
Foreword xvii
Introduction 1
Part I: Discovering Card Games 7
Chapter 1: Card Game Basics 9
Chapter 2: Solitaire 21
Chapter 3: Children's Games 45
Part II: Getting Rid of Cards 61
Chapter 4: Rummy 63
Chapter 5: Canasta 85
Chapter 6: Eights 103
Chapter 7: Fan Tan 111
Part III: Taking Tricks 119
Chapter 8: Whist 121
Chapter 9: Oh Hell! and Other Exact Bidding Games 135
Chapter 10: Euchre 151
Chapter 11: Spades 161
Chapter 12: Contract Bridge and Mini-Bridge 177
Part IV: Scoring or Avoiding Points 187
Chapter 13: Hearts 189
Chapter 14: Pinochle 201
Chapter 15: Setback 225
Part V: Adding and Climbing 237
Chapter 16: Cribbage 239
Chapter 17: President 253
Chapter 18: Blackjack 263
Part VI: Playing Poker 279
Chapter 19: Shuffling Through Poker Basics 281
Chapter 20: Draw Poker 293
Chapter 21: Stud Poker 301
Chapter 22: Texas Hold 'Em 311
Chapter 23: Omaha 329
Part VII: The Part of Tens 343
Chapter 24: Ten Ways to Improve Your Game and Have More Fun 345
Chapter 25: Ten Places to Find More Information on Your Game 349
Introduction 1
Part I: Discovering Card Games 7
Chapter 1: Card Game Basics 9
Chapter 2: Solitaire 21
Chapter 3: Children's Games 45
Part II: Getting Rid of Cards 61
Chapter 4: Rummy 63
Chapter 5: Canasta 85
Chapter 6: Eights 103
Chapter 7: Fan Tan 111
Part III: Taking Tricks 119
Chapter 8: Whist 121
Chapter 9: Oh Hell! and Other Exact Bidding Games 135
Chapter 10: Euchre 151
Chapter 11: Spades 161
Chapter 12: Contract Bridge and Mini-Bridge 177
Part IV: Scoring or Avoiding Points 187
Chapter 13: Hearts 189
Chapter 14: Pinochle 201
Chapter 15: Setback 225
Part V: Adding and Climbing 237
Chapter 16: Cribbage 239
Chapter 17: President 253
Chapter 18: Blackjack 263
Part VI: Playing Poker 279
Chapter 19: Shuffling Through Poker Basics 281
Chapter 20: Draw Poker 293
Chapter 21: Stud Poker 301
Chapter 22: Texas Hold 'Em 311
Chapter 23: Omaha 329
Part VII: The Part of Tens 343
Chapter 24: Ten Ways to Improve Your Game and Have More Fun 345
Chapter 25: Ten Places to Find More Information on Your Game 349