Some time ago, I think it was January 2010, I came across a weirdly named draw poker variant which was played strictly for low. At the time I was still trying to convince my mother to move away from Rummy and give Texas Hold’em Poker a spin but I was getting nowhere. She still insisted on playing the cards, had no idea how to at least semi-bluff with a drawing hand and won very few if any pots. Not winning did not help the learning as you might have guessed. Rather than just throw my hands up in the air and give up, I thought I would give...
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Monday, 13 February 2012
Five Card Draw is considered one of the oldest forms of Poker and is one that places a lot of weight on a player’s ability to interpret opponents’ idiosyncratic tells as well as the ability to bluff in a timely and effective manner. Aside from these “clean” skills including when to play certain cards, and when it would be more appropriate to fold, in the old days the game attracted a lot of outright cheating and the consequential thievery....
Sunday, 5 February 2012
I have to state upfront that Mahjongg is not strictly speaking a card game since it is normally played with domino-like tiles as I have already explained in a previous blog. Still its similarity with the Rummy family of card games as well as it’s addictive gameplay make it more than just worth a mention or two in this blog.Some months back, in late 2011, I finally got around to purchasing a good set as published by Gibson's. It’s a solid set that comes in a well-finished case with all you will ever need to play either traditional Mahjongg or most...
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