Card Games For Dummies


Book Description

Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story. With Card Games For Dummies, Second Edition, you’ll not only be able to play the hottest card games around, you can also apply game-winning strategies and tips to have fun and beat your opponents. Now updated, this hands-on guide shows you everything you need to know—the basics, the tricks, and the techniques—to become a master card player, with expanded coverage on poker as well as online gaming and tournaments. Soon you will have the card-playing power to: Pin down your opponents in Texas Hold’em Show off your power in Stud Poker Hit wisely in Blackjack Break hearts ruthlessly in Hearts Mix up the night with Gin and Rummy Build yourself a victory in Bridge Send them fishing in Go Fish This straightforward, no-nonsense guide features great ways to improve your game and have more fun, as well as a list of places to find out more about your favorite game. It also profiles different variations of each game, making you a player for all seasons!




Canasta - How to Play and Win - Including the Official Rules and Pointers for Play


Book Description

Written for beginners, O’Reilly’s ‘Canasta – How to Play and Win’ covers the card game’s origins, laws and rules and the book features practical pointers and suggestions. ‘Canasta’, the rummy-style card game, originated in South America and became popular in the 1940s. Its popularity spread to the United States just before O’Reilly’s official guidebook was published in 1949, when it was also referred to as the ‘Argentinian Rummy Game’. Contents include: foreword - A Game Was Born - for Four Players - The Frozen Discard Pile - Treys—Red and Black - Concealed Hands - Pointers and Suggestions - Strategy of Play – Proprieties - for Two and Three Players - Score Sheets - Simple Summary for Beginners - Laws of Canasta. We are republishing this rare work using the original text and featuring a new introduction.




Canasta - How to Play and Win


Book Description

Written for beginners, O’Reilly’s ‘Canasta – How to Play and Win’ covers the card game’s origins, laws and rules and the book features practical pointers and suggestions. ‘Canasta’, the rummy-style card game, originated in South America and became popular in the 1940s. Its popularity spread to the United States just before O’Reilly’s official guidebook was published in 1949, when it was also referred to as the ‘Argentinian Rummy Game’. Contents include: foreword - A Game Was Born - for Four Players - The Frozen Discard Pile - Treys—Red and Black - Concealed Hands - Pointers and Suggestions - Strategy of Play – Proprieties - for Two and Three Players - Score Sheets - Simple Summary for Beginners - Laws of Canasta. We are republishing this rare work using the original text and featuring a new introduction.




Canasta Rules


Book Description

If you have a love of learning about games, then Canasta is for you. A game of Canasta requires just two players and takes less than half an hour to learn and play. In this book, you'll discover how the "Canasta' is played, the reasons why it is so much fun to play and several tips to help you play better; also the ultimate Canasta essential strategy guide. The Step-by-step instructions teach you how to play Canasta game and gives tips on making strong melds and brilliant plays. A must for any Canasta player. You'll find out everything you need to know to be able to sit down with a friend or relative and enjoy a stimulating and friendly game of Canasta in just a few pages. You'll find rules, strategy, ideas on how to improve your plays, and even a few "myth busters" which set aside many of the falsehoods surrounding this wonderful game. You'll also get to understand organizadoras, king, how to play cards for adults, dummies and beginners, playing cards with points, the rules book, etc. This is a "no brainer" deal - we guarantee you will want to use this strategy guide every time you play canasta..




How to Play Canasta


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Master the Stylish and Refined Game of Canasta! Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Order Now! Inside How to Play Canasta, you'll discover how to play this relatively new South American game. Invented in Montevideo, Uruguay, this game quickly spread to neighboring countries. The game's inventors named it after canastillos, little baskets they used to sort out their cards. In the 1940s, Josephine Artayate de Veil introduced the game to Manhattan's Regency Club - and the rest is history! Canasta combines elements of Bridge and Rummy. This game is easy to learn, especially for players of these games. Players prefer Canasta because they can play individually and in pairs. This game uses two full decks of cards (including the jokers) and combines partnership play with point-scoring (jokers are worth the most points). How to Play Canasta provides a thorough grounding in the rules and strategies of the game, including melds, red threes, and canastas. You'll also find detailed descriptions of winning Canasta techniques: Maximizing Your Opening Meld Getting the Discard Pile Playing in Pairs Leveraging Dominant and Submissive Pairs Freezing Discard Piles "Going Out" at the End of a Hand and Tallying Points You'll also gain access to a wealth of tips and tricks: When NOT to meld Fast Melding does and don'ts When to force the game How to maximize your points with safe cards What to do with 7 wild cards Why to avoid early canastas When (and when not) to go out and even Why not to bluff in Canasta You'll even learn popular variants like Modern American Canasta and Two Players Canasta! Don't miss out - Get your copy of How to Play Canasta today and start exploring this fascinating game! It's quick and easy to order - Just scroll up and click the BUY NOW WITH ONE CLICK button on the right-hand side of your screen.







Card Games Properly Explained


Book Description

If you have never played cards before, this book is the ideal introduction. Or if you have a basic idea of the rules of some games, it will help you extend your existing knowledge and add new games to your repertoire. You will learn all the basic rules, understand the reasons why players play certain cards, discover the winning strategies and always be able to play the right card at the right time. The book covers all the most popular card games, including: Whist, Solo, Napoleon, Clobbiosh, Belot, Black Maria, Piquet, Five Hundred, Poker, Brag, Cassino, Rummy, Kaluki, Gin Rummy, Canasta, Cribbage and Pontoon.




Hoyle's Rules of Games


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Provides rules, strategies, and odds for card, indoor, and computer games.




Cheating at Canasta


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A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife–lost to him now–whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. At another table, a young couple quarrel. “Cheating at Canasta” is the title story of William Trevor’s new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side, and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre.




Stone Motel


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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores—handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds—they played canasta, an old ladies’ game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father. Morris was successful at occupying his time with his siblings and the children of families staying in the motel’s kitchenette apartments but was not so successful at keeping clear of his father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son, and Morris’s mission to resist—and survive intact. He was aided in his struggle immeasurably by the love and encouragement of a selfless and generous grandmother, who provides his story with much of its warmth, wisdom, and humor. There’s also suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider’s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.