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Maybe some good strong coffee will fix that

PokereLife.com — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:51:22 +0000

There is a few things that you can say about Poker players, very few look like athletes and I am sure none did buy steroids to pump up for a poker game or poker tournament. There will never be any kind of issues with that. Now some poker players look like they are something that makes them look like they are half a sleep. Maybe some good strong coffee will fix that.

Poker Pot Odds

PokereLife.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:33:43 +0000

Once you hit the flop, you should use pot odds to decide your next action. When you hit the flop, either you will be winning or hopefully winning (with a made hand) or you want cards to improve your hand (you are drawing). If you have a made hand, you should bet and raise. You want to win the pot now because more cards can only help your opposition. An example of a made hand is if you hold AK and the board is KJ4.

If you do not have a made hand, you are drawing. You must use ‘pot odds’ to determine if you should call or fold. First, you must count the number of outs you have. An out is a card that will make your hand the best hand. For example, if your hand is KJ, and the board is Q 10 7, then your outs are 4 Aces and 4 9’s, or 8 outs total. To calculate your percentage of hitting an out, you take the # of outs X 2 + 2. Once you figure out this number, you multiply it by the pot to see what the maximum bet is that you can call. For example, if you have 6 outs (6 cards will help you), you have about a 14% chance of hitting. If the pot is 100 and you must call 10, you should call because you can call up to $14 (.14 X 100) but the cost is only $10. However, if the bet to you was $20, you should fold because that would require a 20% chance of hitting.

Poker Slow Play

PokereLife.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:30:13 +0000

Slow playing means deceiving your opponents into thinking you have less of a hand then you do. For example, suppose you hold KK. The flop comes K33, so you flopped a full house! There is no need to scare people out of the pot because there is little chance of someone drawing out on you.

Thus, you should wait to the turn or maybe even river to jam the pot with bets and raises. You should slow play if two conditions are met:

1. You hold a whopper and there is almost no chance of someone drawing out on you.

2. You will only get action if some other cards come out that will improve your opponents’ poker hands, but these cards are not good enough to make these poker hands beat yours.

Slow Play in poker

PokereLife.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:38:32 +0000

Slow-playing means deceiving your opponents into thinking you have less of a hand then you do. For example, suppose you hold KK. The flop comes K33, so you flopped a full house! There is no need to scare people out of the pot because there is little chance of someone drawing out on you.

Thus, you should wait to the turn or maybe even river to jam the pot with bets and raises. You should slow-play if two conditions are met:

1. You hold a whopper and there is almost no chance of someone drawing out on you.

2. You will only get action if some other cards come out that will improve your opponents’ poker hands, but these cards are not good enough to make these poker hands beat yours.

Types of Poker Games

PokereLife.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:24:44 +0000

< << Texas Hold Em
If the action of poker was synonymous with one type of game, the action would be in Texas Hold Em. With up to ten people playing at once, Texas Holdem is arguably the most popular poker game in the world. Players are dealt two cards each (called the hole cards), and five community cards are dealt by the dealer, with a round of betting preceding each new community card. Players need to make the best five card poker hand out of the five community cards and two hole cards. Note that you do not have to use the two hole cards in your hand. You can use both, only one or none of them.

< << Omaha
Similar to Texas Hold Em, Omaha is a community card poker game where players are dealt four cards (called the pocket cards), instead of two as in Texas Hold Em. The Dealer then deals five community cards, with betting rounds preceding each newly dealt community card. Players must make the best five card poker hand using two of their pocket cards and three of the community cards.

< << Omaha Hi Lo
Omaha Hi Lo is one of the most challenging versions of poker played across the globe. Using the same dealing structure as Omaha, Hi Lo is different as the pot is split by both the highest and lowest hand. A low hand does not qualify if it beats an 8. If none of the hands qualifies as lowest then the pot goes to the highest hand. You can use different cards for the two hands, and it is possible to be both the highest and the lowest. Remember you must use two pocket cards and three community cards to construct a hand, however you may use different cards to create a high and low hand.

< << Seven Card Stud
The most popular of the stud poker games and a close second to Texas Holdem in popularity, Seven Card Stud is a high betting game that rewards skilful players who crave a challenge. Each Player is dealt three cards, two face down (called hole cards) and one face up (called up or door cards). Rounds of betting precede the Dealer giving each player three more up cards and one more down card. A final round of betting occurs after the last card, and the Player with the highest five card hand wins using any five of their seven cards.

< << Five Card Stud
The classic poker game, Five Card Stud Poker is one of the oldest games. Players are dealt one card face down (the hole card) and one card face up (the up or door card). Players then have a betting round before the dealer gives out a new up card. Once players have five cards there is a final round of betting, and the Player with the highest hand wins the pot.

The Basic Skills of Online Poker

PokereLife.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:25:54 +0000

Poker pros are commonly described as tight and aggressive: “These poker pros do not play many hands, but when they do play them, they play them like they have the nuts.”

That’s a nice general description, but it doesn’t say much. And it’s not even totally right about no limit games, as a solid loose, aggressive player is a person to be feared. Thus, when I think people say a player is tight and aggressive and therefore good, I really think they mean that the player has mastered four critical elements of poker.

#1. Math skills
Good poker players know the general percentages. They know that you have about 1 in 8 chance of hitting a set when holding a pocket pair, and that you have about a 1 in 3 chance of completing a flush draw at the flop.
They know the importance of ‘outs.’ Outs are simply the number of cards that will improve your poker hand. Count your outs, multiply them by two, and add two, and that’s roughly the percentage shot you have at hitting.
They can figure out the ‘pot odds’. Knowing outs is meaningless unless it’s translated into rational, calculated betting. Knowing you have a 20% chance of hitting, what do you do then? Well, simply once you figure out your chance of hitting/winning, you divide the size of the pot at the river (i.e. the current pot plus the amount of money that you think will be added through future bets) by the amount you have to put in. If you have a 20% chance of hitting and the bet to you is 50, if the pot at the river will be greater than 250, call. If not, fold.

Math skills are the most basic knowledge. The purpose of this site is not to go over pot odds, implied odds, etc. That’s day one reading. Anyone who doesn’t understand these concepts should not play in a game until they do.

#2. Discipline
Good poker players demand an advantage. What separates a winning poker player from a fish is that a fish does not expect to win, while a poker player does. A fish is happy playing craps, roulette, the slots; he just hopes to get lucky. A poker player does not hope to get lucky; he just hopes others don’t get lucky.

Good poker players understand that a different game requires a different discipline. A disciplined no limit player can be a foolish limit player and vice versa. A disciplined limit player is always very tight preflop. He or she will not play too many hands, only the ones that have a very good chance at winning.

However, a disciplined no limit player is VERY different. This player is not so concerned with paying too many blinds; instead, he or she does not want to get trapped. The main difference between a disciplined limit and no limit player is that the limit player avoids piddling away his stack bit by bit while a disciplined no limit player avoids losing his whole stack in one hand. Hence, a disciplined no limit player can play a lot of hands. Preflop, he or she can be as loose as ‘that’ girl in high school. However, a good no limit player knows when to toss hands that will get him or her in trouble.
A disciplined player knows when to play and when to quit. He recognizes when he is on tilt and is aware when a game is too juicy to just quit while ahead.

A disciplined player knows that he is not perfect. When a disciplined poker player makes a mistake, he learns. He does not blame others. He does not cry. He learns from the mistake and moves on.

#3. Psychological Skills
A good poker player is not a self-centered player. He may be the biggest SOB you know. He may not talk about, care about anyone but himself and may enjoy stealing food from the poor. However, when a poker pro walks into a poker room, he always empathizes with his opponents. He tries to think what they think and understand the decisions they make and why they make them.

The poker pro always tries to have an answer to these questions:

a- what does my foe have
b- what does my foe think I have
c- what does my foe think I think he has

Knowing the answer to these questions is the first step, manipulating the answers is the second and more important step. If you have a pair of kings and your foe has a pair of aces, and you both know what each other have and both know that you each know what the other has, why play a game of poker? A poker pro manipulates the latter two answers by slowplaying, fastplaying, and bluffing in order to throw his opponent off.
Good poker players know that psychology is much, much, much more important in a no limit game than in a limit one. Limit games often turn into math battles, while no limit games carry a strong psychology component.

#4. A Clear Understanding of Risk-vs-Reward
Pot odds and demanding an advantage fall into this category. Poker players are willing to take a long shot risk if the reward is high enough, but only if the expected return is higher than the risk.

More importantly, they understand the risk-vs-reward nature of the game outside of the actual poker room. They know how much bank they need to play, and how much money they need in reserve to cover other expenses in life.

Good poker players are fundamentally slightly risk-averse. In economics, a person is defined as risk-neutral, risk-averse, or risk-loving, depending on how that person rewards the next dollar they gain or lose. Risk loving poker players are perfectly happy risking their entire bankroll on an even odds bet, a risk-neutral poker player is indifferent towards it, and a very risk-averse poker player would never risk his whole bankroll. Thus, a good poker player is slightly risk averse because he demands a big enough advantage to not be considered ‘risk-neutral,’ but he tends to value every dollar in his bankroll equally. If you cannot afford to lose your entire bankroll, you should not be playing with that much money.

Starting Hands
The first thing you must understand when you play Texas Holdem is which hands are good and which are bad. Though it depends on the number of people in the game and the type, here is a general guide to use when you are just starting out but want to be a winning player at the lower limits. I suggest starting out at a fixed limit of $1-2 or lower.
Hands to Raise with:
These are ‘premium hands’ that you want to raise the pot on the preflop:
AA, KK, QQ, AK, JJ, AQ, 1010

Hands to call with:
You want to see the flop with these hands and then decide. Do not call three bets with these hands, call only one or two.
AJ, KQ, QJ, J10, 109 (only if of same suit),99, 88, 77, Ax (same suit)

Pot Odds
Once you hit the flop, you should use pot odds to decide your next action. When you hit the flop, either you will be winning or hopefully winning (with a made hand) or you want cards to improve your hand (you are drawing). If you have a made hand, you should bet and raise. You want to win the pot now because more cards can only help your opposition. An example of a made hand is if you hold AK and the board is KJ4.

If you do not have a made hand, you are drawing. You must use ‘pot odds’ to determine if you should call or fold. First, you must count the number of outs you have. An out is a card that will make your hand the best hand. For example, if your hand is KJ, and the board is Q 10 7, then your outs are 4 Aces and 4 9’s, or 8 outs total. To calculate your percentage of hitting an out, you take the # of outs X 2 + 2. Once you figure out this number, you multiply it by the pot to see what the maximum bet is that you can call. For example, if you have 6 outs (6 cards will help you), you have about a 14% chance of hitting. If the pot is 100 and you must call 10, you should call because you can call up to $14 (.14 X 100) but the cost is only $10. However, if the bet to you was $20, you should fold because that would require a 20% chance of hitting.

Deception
Bluffing and Slowplaying are two deceptive techniques you should employ.

Bluffing
Contrary to popular belief, bluffing is almost useless in a low limit game (anything less than $2-4). Rarely will people not call to a showdown, so there is no point in scaring people out of the pot. I suggest waiting to bluff until you play at a higher limit. When you play at a higher limit, it’s best to bluff when you ‘represent’ something and there are only one or two opponents in the pot. For example, betting at the flop with a high card on the board ‘represents’ a pair, raising when a flush is possible ‘represents’ the flush.

Slowplaying
Slowplaying means deceiving your opponents into thinking you have less of a hand then you do. For example, suppose you hold KK. The flop comes K33, so you flopped a full house! There is no need to scare people out of the pot because there is little chance of someone drawing out on you.

Thus, you should wait to the turn or maybe even river to jam the pot with bets and raises. You should slowplay if two conditions are met:

1. You hold a whopper and there is almost no chance of someone drawing out on you.

2. You will only get action if some other cards come out that will improve your opponents’ poker hands, but these cards are not good enough to make these poker hands beat yours.

Alphabetical Index of Card Games

PokereLife.com — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:59:54 +0000

Traditional multi-player card games for which rules are available from this site are listed below in alphabetical order, together with the number of players needed. Alternative numbers of players are given in brackets, so “4 [5] players” means that the game is basically for 4 players, but it is possible for 5 to play.

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Index of Games
#
2s (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
3 Card Brag (4 to 8 players)
3 Card Monte (2 [or more] players)
3 5 7 (Poker variant) – see Poker
3-13 (2 or more players)
3 in 1 (4 to 7 [2 to 9] players)
4 Card Brag (4 to 8 players)
4 Colour Chess Cards (Si Se Pai) (2 to 4 players)
5 Card Brag (4 to 8 players)
All 5’s (cards) (2 or 3 players)
5 Up (= All 5’s: dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
5’s and 3’s (dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
6 Card Brag (4 to 8 players)
7 Card Brag (4 to 7 players)
7’s (= Fan Tan, Parliament) (3 to 8 players)
7-27 (4 to 10 players)
8’s (2 or more players)
8-5-3 (= Sergeant Major) (3 players)
9 Card Brag (4 to 6 players)
9 Card Don (4 players)
Sky 9 (= Tien Gow) (4 players)
9-5-2 (3 players)
10 (Poker variant) – see Poker
13 (= Tien Len) (2 to 4 players)
13 Card Brag (4 players)
13 Cards (= Chinese Poker) (4 players)
20 ab (4 players)
21 (Blackjack) (2 to 7 players)
25 (2 to 10 players)
28 (4 [or 6 or 3] players)
29 (4 players)
31 (= Schwimmen, Schnauz) (2 to 8 players)
31 (= Scat) (2 to 9 players)
31 (= One and Thirty, Bone Ace) (2 to 8 players)
40 (Cuarenta) (4 players)
40 points (Sishi fen) (= 100 points) (4 players)
42 (4 players)
45s (4 or 6 players)
52 card pickup (2 players)
55 (2 to 10 players)
56 (4 or 6 or 8 players)
63 (4 players)
66 (2 players)
80 points (Tractor) (4 or 6 players)
83 (4 players)
98 (2 to 10 players)
99 (trick-taking game) (3 [2 to 5] players)
99 (similar to 98 – adding game) (2 to 10 players)
100 points (the Chinese game Da Bai Fen) (4 players)
100 (similar to 98 and 99 – adding game) (2 to 10 players)
110 (2 to 10 players)
120 (= Forty-fives) (4 or 6 players)
220 (2 to 10 players)
500 (3 to 6 players)
500 Rum (2 to 8 players)
800 (Ottocento: Tarocchi Bolognesi) (4 players)
1000 (= Tysiacha) (2 or 3 [or 4] players)
1001 (Tausendeins, Tysiacha Odin) (2 or 3 [or 4] players)

A
Abyssinia (Poker variant) – see Poker
Ace-Deuce (= Yablon) (2 to 8 players)
Agurk (= Cucumber) (2 to 7 players)
Alcalde (3 players)
Alkort (4 players)
All Fours (2 or 4 players)
All Fives (cards) (2 or 3 players)
All Fives (dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
All For One or One For All (Poker variant) – see Poker
Aluette (4 players)
Anaconda (Poker variant) – see Poker
l’Ascenseur (= Oh Hell!) (3 to 6 players)
Ashush (= Basra) (2 [3 or 4] players)
Asshole (= President, Scum, Bum) (4 to 7 players)
Auction (Poker variant) – see Poker
Auction Forty-Fives (4 or 6 players)
Authors (3 to 6 [2] players)
Avinas (4 players)

B
Baccarat (2 to 12 players)
Back Alley Bridge (4 players)
Bai Fen (4 players)
Barbu (4 players)
Bartok (2 or more players)
Baseball (Poker variant) – see Poker
Bashi Fen (80 points; Tractor) (4 or 6 players)
Basra (2 [3 or 4] players)
Bauernschnapsen (4 [3] players)
Beggar My Neighbour (Beat Your Neighbour Out Of Doors) (2 players)
Bela (2 or 3 players)
Belote (4 players)
Belote Découverte (2 players)
Bergen (Dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Between the Sheets (= Yablon) (2 to 8 players)
Bezique (2 players)
Bid Euchre (4 [6 or 8] players)
Bid Whist (4 players)
Bieten (3 to 5 players)
Big Two (= Choi Dai Di) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Blackjack (2 to 7 players)
Black Maria (variation of Hearts) (3 or 4 players)
Black Maria (Finnish) (2 to 6 players)
Blackout (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Blitz (= Scat, 31) (2 to 9 players)
Block Dominoes (2 to 4 players)
Bone Ace (2 to 8 players)
Bonneteau (= 3 Card Monte) (2 [or more] players)
Boodle (= Michigan) (3 to 8 players)
Boonaken (4 to 6 [7] players)
Botifarra (4 players)
Bouillotte (4 [3 or 5] players)
Bouré (Boo-Ray) (4 to 10 players)
Brag (3-card, 4-card, 5-card) (4 to 8 players)
Brag (6-card, 7-card, 9-card, 13-card) (4 to 8 players)
Brcko (= Stovkahra) (4 players)
Bridge (4 players)
Brisca (2 to 5 players)
Briscola (2 to 6 players)
Brouc (4 players)
Brus (4 or 6 players)
Bu Bu Gao Sheng (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Buck Euchre (3 or 4 players)
Buddha’s Folly (Poker variant) – see Poker
Bullshit (2 to 10 players)
Bum (= Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Bura (2 [or up to 6] players)
Burraco (4 players)
Bust (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Butthead (= Asshole) (4 to 7 players)

C
Calabresella (= Terziglio) (3 players)
Caloochi (3 to 5 [2, 6] players)
Camicia (2 players)
Canasta (4 players)
Capitalism (= President) (4 to 7 players)
Carioca (2 to 4 [5] players)
Carousel (2 to 5 players)
Caribbean Poker (2 or more players)
Casino (2 to 4 players)
Casino Hold’em Poker (up to 7 players)
Casita Robada (Stealing Bundles) (2 to 4 players)
Cat and Mouse (= Spite and Malice) (2 players)
Catch Five (= Pitch with Fives) (4 players)
Cau Robat (3 to 5 players)
Cego (3 or 4 players)
Chase the Ace (= Cuckoo) (6 or more players)
Cheat (2 to 10 players)
Chicago (Swedish) (2 to 4 players)
Chicago (Bridge variant) – see Bridge
Chicago (Poker variant) – see Poker
Chicken Foot (dominoes) (4 to 8 players)
Chinese Poker (4 players)
Chinese Ten (2 to 4 players)
Choh Dai Di (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Church (Poker variant) – see Poker
Ciapanò (3 to 5 players)
Cicera (4 players)
Cincinnati (Poker variant) – see Poker
Cinch (= Pedro) (4 players)
Clabber (4 [2 or 3] players)
Clobyosh (2 [or 3] players)
Cöch (4 players)
Coiffeur-Schieber Jass (3 [4] players)
Coinche (4 players)
Conquian (2 players)
Contract Bridge (4 players)
Contract Rummy (3 to 5 players)
Costly Colours (2 players)
Coteccio (Trieste) (2 to 7 players)
Cowpie Poker (Poker variant) – see Poker
Crapette (= Russian Bank) (2 players)
Crash (4 players)
Crates (2 to 5 players)
Crazy Eights (2 or more players)
Crazy Nines (= Golf) (2 to 6 [or more] players)
Cribbage (Five Card) (2 players)
Cribbage (Six Card) (2 to 4 players)
Cuajo (4 players)
Cuarenta (4 [or 2] players)
Cucco (4 players)
Cuckoo (6 or more players)
Cucumber (= Agurk) (2 to 7 players)
Cut-throat Euchre (= Buck Euchre) (3 players)

D
Da Bai Fen (100) (4 players)
Da Lao Er (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Dakota (Poker variant) – see Poker
Danish Tarok (3 [or 4] players)
Deuces (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Devil’s Bridge (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Differenzler Jass (3 or 4 players)
Dirty Clubs (3 or 4 players)
Dirty Schultz (Poker variant) – see Poker
Dobbm (4 [or 5] players)
Dom Pedro (4 players)
Don (4 players)
Doppelkopf (4 [or 5] players)
Double Solitaire (2 players)
Draw Dominoes (2 to 4 players)
Droggn (Stubai Tarock) (3 [or 4] players)
Drunkard (2 [3 or 4] players)
Durak (2 to 6 players)
Duren Piatkowy (3 to 6 [or more] players)

E
Egyptian Ratscrew (2 or more players)
Eighty-three (4 players)
Eleusis (4 to 8 players)
Elevator (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Elevator (Poker variant) – see Poker
Emperors and Scum (= President, Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Encaje (3 or 5 players)
English Stud (Poker variant) – see Poker
Euchre (4 [or 6] players)

F
Fan Tan (= Sevens, Parliament) (3 to 8 players)
Faro (2 to 20 or more)
Fifty-Two Card Pickup (2 players)
Fifty-Six (4 or 6 or 8 players)
Find the Lady (= 3 Card Monte) (2 [or more] players)
Fish (= Go Fish) (3 to 6 [2] players)
Five Card Draw (Poker variant) – see Poker
Five Hundred (3 to 6 players)
Five Hundred Rum (2 to 8 players)
Fives and Threes (dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Five-Up (Dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Flower and Scorpion (Dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Flush (= Teen Pathi) (4 to 7 players)
Follow the Queen (Poker variant) – see Poker
Forty points (Sishi Fen) (= Bai Fen) (4 players)
Forty-Fives (4 or 6 players)
Forty-two (4 players)
French Tarot (4 [3 or 5] players)

G
German Bridge (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
German Solo (4 players)
German Whist (2 players)
Gin Rummy (2 [3 or 4] players)
Gleek (3 players)
Go Fish (3 to 6 [2] players)
Golden Ten (3 to 7 players)
Golf (2 to 6 [or more] players)
Gong Zhu (4 or 5 players)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Poker variant) – see Poker
Good, Better, Best (= Chinese Poker) (4 players)
Grocery Store Dots (Poker variant) – see Poker
Guiñote (Tute variant) (2 to 5 players)
Guts (Poker variant) – see Poker

H
Hanafuda (2 to 7 players)
Hand and Foot (4 [2 to 6] players)
Happy Families (3 to 7 players)
Hara Kiri (= Golf) (2 to 6 [or more] players)
Have a Heart (Poker variant) – see Poker
Hearts (4 [3 or 5] players)
Henway (Poker variant) – see Poker
High Card Pool (= Red Dog) (3 to 8 players)
High Five (= Pedro) (4 players)
High-Low-Jack (= Pitch) (4 [3 to 6] players)
Hola (2 or 4 [3] players)
L’Hombre (3 [4] players)
Honeymoon Bridge (2 players)
Hornafjarðarmanni (3 players)
Hosen ‘runter (= Schwimmen, Schnauz) (2 to 8 players)
Hoskin (3 players)
Howdy Doody (Poker variant) – see Poker
Hundred (the Chinese game Da Bai Fen) (4 players)
Hundred (similar to 98 and 99 – adding game) (2 to 10 players)
Hundred and twenty (= Forty-fives) (4 or 6 players)
Hungarian Tarokk (Paskievics) (4 [5] players)

I
I Doubt It (2 to 6 players)
Illustrated Hungarian Tarokk (Palatinusz) (4 [5] players)
In Between (= Yablon) (2 to 8 players)
Indian Poker (Poker variant) – see Poker
Iron Cross (Poker variant) – see Poker
Israeli Whist (4 players)

J
Jacks to Open, Trips to Win (Poker variant) – see Poker
Jack the Shifter (Poker variant) – see Poker
Jass (2 to 6 players)

K
Kaiser (4 players)
Kaiserspiel (= Kaiserjass) (4 or 6 players)
Kalookie (3 to 5 [2, 6] players)
Kalter Schlag (4 players)
Kaluki (3 to 5 [2, 6] players)
Kap Tai Shap (2 or more players)
Kapaga (2 or more players)
Karma (= Shithead, Palace) (3 to 6 players)
Karnöffel (4 players)
Kemps (4 [6 or 8] players)
King (4 players)
King Pedro (4 players)
King Rummy (3 to 5 players)
Kings Corners (2 to 4 or more players)
Kjempetosk (= Stortok) (2 to 5 players)
Klabberjass (3 or 4 [2] players)
Klaverjas (4 players)
Kleurwiezen (Whist à la Couleur) (4 players)
Klootzakken (= President) (4 to 7 players)
Knack (= Schwimmen, Schnauz) (2 to 8 players)
Knaves (3 players)
Knockout Whist (2 to 7 players)
Königrufen (Austrian Tarock) (4 [5] players)
Kozel (2 [or up to 5] players)
Kraken (Klaverjas variant) (4 players)
Krypkille (4 to 6 [3 to 8] players)

L
Lame Brain Pete (Poker variant) – see Poker
Last One (2 to 6 players)
Laugavatnsmanni (3 players)
Laugh and Lie Down (5 players)
Laus (4 players)
Let It Ride (2 or more players)
L’Hombre (3 [4] players)
Liuk Fu (3 [4] players)
Liverpool Rummy (3 to 5 players)
Loba (Argentinean) (2 to 5 players)
Loba (Central American) (2 to 4 [5] players)
Loo (3 to 8 players)
Looking for Friends (6 to 12 players)
Losing Lodam (2 to 10 players)
Luk Fu (3 [4] players)
Luosong Pai Jiu (= Chinese Poker) (4 players)
Lupfen (3 to 5 players)

M
Madrasso (4 players)
Manipulation (2 to 5 players)
Manni (3 players)
Mao (2 or more players)
Mah Jong (4 players)
Marias (2 to 4 players)
Marjapussi (4 players)
Matador (dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Mattis (= Mas, Mjölnarmatte, Skitgubbe) (3 [2 or 4] players)
Maw (3 to 10 players)
May I? (3 to 5 players)
Mensch (4 players)
Mexican Stud (Poker variant) – see Poker
Mexican Sweat (Poker variant) – see Poker
Mexican Train (dominoes) (2 to 10 players)
Michigan (3 to 8 players)
Michigan Rummy (= Three in One) (4 to 7 [2 to 9] players)
Midnight Baseball (Poker variant) – see Poker
Mighty (3 to 8 players)
Minhato (2 to 7 players)
Minnesota Whist (4 players)
Mitaines (2 or 4 players)
Mittlere Jass (3 players)
Mizerka (3 players)
Molotow Jass (4 players)
Muggins (= Five-Up: dominoes) (2 to 4 players)
Mus (4 or 6 players)
Mus Francés (Encaje) (3 or 5 players)
Mustamaija (2 to 6 players)

N
Nap (= British Napoleon) (2 to 7 players)
Napalm (4 to 7 players)
Napoleon (British) (2 to 7 players)
Napoleon (Japanese) (5 [2 to 6] players)
Nerts (2 to 6, 8, 10 players)
Newmarket (= Michigan) (3 to 8 players)
Nine Card Don (4 players)
Nine-Five (= Pedro Sancho) (4 players)
Nine Five Two (3 players)
Ninety-Eight (2 to 10 players)
Ninety-Nine (trick-taking game) (3 [2 to 5] players)
Ninety-Nine (variation of 98 – adding game) (2 to 10 players)
NLK (4 to 9 players)
Noddy (2 players)
Nomination Whist (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Nos (Dominoes) (3 to 5 players)

O
Oh Hell! (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Oh Shit! (= Oh Hell!) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)
Okey (4 [2 or 3] players)
Oklahoma Gin (2 [3 or 4] players)
Old Maid (2 or more players)
Omaha (Poker variant) – see Poker
Ombre (= L’Hombre) (3 [4] players)
One and Thirty (2 to 8 players)
Ottocento (Tarocchi Bolognesi) (4 players)

P
Pai Gow (2 to 7 players)
Pai Gow Poker (2 to 7 players)
Palace (= Shithead) (3 to 6 players)
Pandoeren (4 players)
Panguingue (4 to 8 players)
Parliament (= Sevens, Fan Tan) (3 to 8 players)
Paskahousu (4 or 5 [3 to 7] players)
Paskievics Tarokk (Hungarian call XX tarokk) (4 [5] players)
Patience (Solitaire) (1 player)
Peanut Butter (= Kemps) (4 players)
Peanuts (= Nerts)(2 to 6, 8, 10 players)
Pedro (4 players)
Penneech (2 players)
Pennies from Heaven (6 players)
Pepper (4 [2, 3] players)
Perdivinci (= Ciapanò) (3 to 5 players)
Phat (4 players)
Pick a Partner (Poker variant) – see Poker
Pidro (4 players)
Pig (4 or more players)
Pilotta (4 players)
Pinochle (double deck) (4 players)
Pinochle (single deck) (4 players)
Pinochle (three-player, auction) (3 [or more] players)
Pinochle (two-player) (2 players)
Piquet (2 players)
Pishti (4 or 2 [3] players)
Pitch (= Setback) (4 [3 to 6] players)
Pits (= Zheng Shangyou) (4 to 6 players)
Pitty Pat (2 to 4 players)
Plus-Minus Jass (3 or 4 players)
Poch (3 to 6 players)
Podkidnoy Durak (2 to 6 players)
Podrida (2 to 9 players)
Poker (5 to 10 [2 to 10] players)
Poker Bull (3 or more players)
Poker Menteur (3 to 5 [2 to 8] players)
Polignac (4 to 6 players)
Polish Poker (= Golf) (2 to 6 [or more] players)
Polish Red Dog (or Polski Pachuck) (3 to 8 players)
Pontoon (3 to 8 [or more] players)
Pope Joan (3 to 7 players)
Poque (= Pochspiel) (3 to 6 players)
Pounce (= Nerts) (2 to 6, 8, 10 players)
Preferans (Russian) (3 or 4 players)
Preferansz (Donauschwaben) (3 players)
Preference (Austrian) (3 [4] players)
Preference (Croatian) (3 players)
President (= Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
The Price is Right (Poker variant) – see Poker
Primero (2 or more players)
Progressive Rummy (3 to 5 players)
Prostoy Durak (2 to 4 players)
Proter (3 to 6 players)
Psycho (Poker variant) – see Poker
Púkk (5 to 7 players)
Push (4 players)
Pusoy (= Chinese Poker) (4 players)
Pusoy Dos (= Big Two) (4 [2 or 3] players)
Put (2 players)
P’yanitsa (2 [3 or 4] players)

Q
Quadrille (4 players)
Quan Dui (3 to 6 players)
Quartet (3 to 7 players)
Quitlok (5 to 7 [4 to 8] players)

R
Rablóulti (3 players)
Racehorse (Pitch variant) – see Pitch
Racing Demon (= Pounce, Nerts) (2 to 6, 8, 10 players)
Railroad Canasta (2 or more players)
Rami (= Rummy) (2 to 4 [5, 6] players)
Ramsch (Schieberamsch) (3 [4] players)
Ramsli (2 to 6 players)
Ranter Go Round (= Cuckoo) (6 or more players)
Raub (4 [2 or 3] players)
Red Dog (2 to 8 players)
Reversis (4 players)
Rich Man, Poor Man (= President, Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Ride the Bus (= Scat) (2 to 9 players)
Rikken (4 players)
Ristikontra (Ristiklappi) (4 players)
Roi (le Jeu du) (= King) (4 players)
Romanian Tarok (4 [3] players)
Romanian Tile Rummy (2 to 4 players)
Romanian Whist (3 to 8 players)
Ronda (2 or 4 players)
Rook (4 [3 or 5] players)
Root Beer (President) (3 to 6 players)
Rovescino (= Ciapanò) (3 to 5 players)
Ruff and Honours (4 players)
Ruff and Trump (4 players)
Rufmariasch (4 players)
Rummy (2 to 4 [5, 6] players)
Russian Bank (= Crapette) (2 players)
Russian Poker (= Chinese Poker) (4 players)

S
Sakura (2 to 7 players)
Samba (Samba-Canasta) (2 to 6 players)
Sap Sam Cheung (13 cards) (4 players)
Scat (= 31) (2 to 9 players)
Schafkopf (4 players)
Schieber Jass (4 [6] players)
Schmier (6 or 5 players)
Schnapsen (2 players)
Schnauz (= Schwimmen) (2 to 8 players)
Schwimmen (2 to 8 players)
Scopone (4 players)
Screw Your Neighbor (various)
Scum (= Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Sechsundsechzig (2 players)
Second Hand High (Poker variant) – see Poker
Selection/Rejection (Poker variant) – see Poker
Sequence (Poker variant) – see Poker
Sergeant Major (3 players)
Setback (= Pitch) (4 [3 or 6] players)
Sevens (= Fan Tan, Parliament) (3 to 8 players)
Seven Twenty-Seven (4 to 10 players)
Shanghai Rummy (3 to 5 players)
Shanghai (3 to 5 players)
Sheepshead (5 players)
Sheng Ji (Raise level) (= Bai Fen) (4 players)
Shithead (= Palace) (3 to 6 [2] players)
Shoot (3 to 8 players)
Shoot Pontoon (3 to 8 players)
Shuan Er (Throw two) (= Bai Fen) (4 players)
Si Se Pai (4 Colour Chess Cards) (2 to 4 players)
Sixty-six (2 players)
Sixty-three (4 players)
Sjavs (4 players)
Skat (3 [4] players)
Skitgubbe (= Mas) (3 [2 or 4] players)
Slapjack (2 to 10 players)
Slippery Sam (3 to 8 players)
Slovenian Tarok (3 or 4 [5] players)
Sluitspieren (= President) (4 to 7 players)
Smear (4 to 6 players)
Snoozer (4 players)
Solitaire (Patience) (1 player)
Solo Whist (4 players)
Solo (German Solo) (4 players)
Spades (4 [3 or 2] players)
Spar (2 to 4 [up to 7] players)
Speculation (around 6 to 12 players)
Speed (= Spit) (2 players)
Spit (2 players)
Spite and Malice (2 [or more] players)
Spit in the Ocean (Poker variant) – see Poker
Spitzer (4 players)
Spoons (children’s game) (4 or more players)
Spoons (crazy eights variant) (3 to 8 players)
Squeal (= Pounce, Nerts) (2 to 6, 8, 10 players)
Staekske Rape (4 players)
Stealing Bundles (2 to 4 players)
Stitch (3 to 8 players)
Stortok (2 to 5 players)
Stovkahra (4 players)
Strip Jack Naked (= Beggar My Neighbour) (2 players)
Strip Poker (2 to 7 players)
Stubai Tarock (3 [or 4] players)
Stud Poker (Poker variant) – see Poker
Stýrivolt (4 players)
Sueca (4 players)
Svoi Kozyri (2 to 4 players)
Switch (= Crazy Eights) (2 or more players)

T
Table Top Cribbage (2 or 4 players)
Tappen (Dobbm) (4 [or 5] players)
Tapp Tarock (3 players)
Tarocchi Bolognesi (Ottocento) (4 players)
Tarock (Austrian) (4 [5] players)
Tarock (Stubaital) (3 [or 4] players)
Tarok (Danish) (3 [or 4} players)
Tarok (Romanian) (4 [3] players)
Tarok (Slovenian) (3 or 4 [5] players)
Tarokk (Hungarian) (4 [5] players)
Taroky (Czech / Slovak) (4 [5] players)
Tarot (general)
Tarot (French) (3 to 5 players)
Teen Pathi (4 to 7 players)
Ten (Poker variant) – see Poker
Terziglio (= Calabresella) (3 players)
Texas Hold ‘Em (Poker variant) – see Poker
Thirteen (= Tien Len) (2 to 4 players)
Thirty-one (= Schwimmen, Schnauz) (2 to 8 players)
Thirty-one (= Scat) (2 to 9 players)
Three Card Monte (2 [or more] players)
Three Five Seven (Poker variant) – see Poker
Three in One (4 to 7 [2 to 9] players)
Three Thirteen (2 or more players)
Tic Tac Toe (Poker variant) – see Poker
Tien Gow (4 players)
Tien Len (2 to 4 players)
Tile Rummy (2 to 4 players)
Tiu U (2 or 3 players)
Toepen (3 to 8 players)
Toonerville Rook (3 to 5 players)
Tonk (2 or 3 [or up to 7] players)
Toppm (Dobbm) (4 [or 5] players)
Tractor (4 or 6 players)
Train (Dominoes) (4 [3 to 8] players)
Traversone (= Ciapanò) (3 to 5 players)
Trees (Poker variant) – see Poker
Treikort (3 players)
Tresillo (3 or 4 players)
Tressette (4 players)
Tribello (3 players)
Trjámann (3 players)
Troccas (4 players)
Troggu (3 to 8 players)
Trou du Cul / Trouduc (= President, Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Truc (4 [or 2] players)
Truco (2, 4 or 6 players)
Trumps (= Knockout Whist) (2 to 7 players)
Trust – Don’t Trust (Verish’ ne verish’) (2 to 6 players)
Tunk (= Tonk) (2 or 3 [or up to 7] players)
Tuolaji (Tractor) (4 or 6 players)
Turtle (= Golf) (2 to 6 [or more] players)
Tute (2 to 5 players)
Twenty-One (Blackjack) (2 to 7 players)
Twenty-Five (2 to 10 players)
Twenty-Eight (4 [or 6 or 3] players)
Twenty-Nine (4 players)
Tysiacha (= 1000) (2 or 3 [or 4] players)

U
Ugly (3 or 4 players)
Ulti (3 players)
Umtali (2 players)
Up and down the River (= Oh Hell) (4 to 6 [3, 7] players)

V
Vache (= Aluette) (4 players)
Valets (jeu des) (= Polignac) (3 to 6 players)
Vatikan (2 to 5 players)
VC (= Tien Len) (2 to 4 players)
Verish’ ne verish’ (2 to 6 players)
Video Poker (1 player)
Vier-anderle (5 to 8 [2 to 13] players)
Viet Cong (= Tien Len) (2 to 4 players)
Vinciperdi (= Ciapanò) (3 to 5 players)
Vingt-et-un (3 to 8 [or more] players)
Vira (3 [4] players)
Viuda, La (4 to 7 players)
Voormsi (or Vorms) (4 or 2 [or 3] players)

W
Wall Street (Poker variant) – see Poker
Want It? Want It? Got It! (Poker variant) – see Poker
War (2 [or more] players)
Warlords and Scumbags (= President, Asshole) (4 to 7 players)
Watten (2 to 4 players)
Welsh Don (4 players)
Whipsaw (= Napalm) (4 to 7 players)
Whisky Poker (2 to 9 players)
Whist (4 players)
Whist à la Couleur (Kleurwiezen) (4 players)
Wiezen (4 players)
Wilde Boom (= Kraken) (4 players)
Wumps (= Voormsi) (4 or 2 [or 3] players)

X
XXas-hívásos Tarokk (Hungarian call XX tarokk) (4 [5] players)
XX-rufen (Austrian call XX Tarock) (4 [5] players)

Y
Yablon (= Ace-Deuce, In Between) (2 to 8 players)

Z (Poker variant) – see Poker
Zanga (4 players)
Zap Your Neighbor (various)
Zhao Pengyou (Looking for Friends) (6 to 12 players)
Zheng Fen (3 to 6 players)
Zheng Shangyou (4 to 6 players)
Zifuli (5 players)
Zioncheck (3 to 5 players)
Zsírozás (2 or 4 players)
Zwanzig ab (4 players)
Zwanzigerrufen (Austrian Tarock) (4 [5] players)
Zwickern (4 [2, 3 or more] players

There are a lots of Card games. Too many to memorize. Here is a list that I started many years ago. let me know if I need to add one.

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