Gin Rummy Archives

Gin Rummy Background

When Gin Rummy suddenly surged to the front in 1938, most dictionaries and almost all Bridge Writers jumped to the conclusion that the game was an entirely new form of Rummy. Most present-day Bridge writers and game authors erroneously credit a New York Bridge expert with the invention of Gin Rummy in 1909.The truth is that game-rule books published in the early 1000s describe a game called Gin Poker which is almost identical to the present Gin Rummy. As for the origin of Gin Poker, in some other country there may be obscure records of some very early game resembling our Rummy games but failing that, my opinion is that the origin of the Rummy games was Whiskey Poker; a peculiarly American variant of Poker. Gin Rummy Background

Game Strategy

At the very outset, I make this promise: No matter how good a Gin player you are, this section will improve your game. It is a collection of tips and hints that I've gathered over the years from the country's crack players. This advice will center on Gin Rummy Online, but most of it can be put to profitable use in any game of the Rummy family. Let me say this right now: these games are not played for fun only. They are played for money. Cards games that lack the gambling element, the profit motive, don't attain mass popularity. Game Strategy

Gin Rummy Observation

One player in the West Coast money crowd likes to arrange to stand behind any potential opponent and size up his style of play. He wants to know whether the man is methodical, whether he speculates rashly or well, whether he tries for a knock hand instead of Gin Rummy, whether he gets nervous under the baleful glare of a fistful of high cards, how he talks when the cards are running with him and when they're against him. Card players, like everyone else, tend to be creatures of habit. They react, often unconsciously, to their circumstances. Gin Rummy Observation

Card Rules

"What card players the world over need is a great two-game." I have said this for many years, and now it seems fills the bill. It is truly the most fascinating and exciting card game in history. Regular Gin Rummy, unlike S basically a gambling game. Leave the stakes out of Gin R falls flat on its face as a no gambling game. Skarney Gin, a great family pastime. For the millions of married coup Gin is the ideal two-handed game. Card Rules

Gin Tales

Once during tournament play, Danny London and I were partners and had advanced to the final eight. The game was close. I had knocked and won enough points to just win the gin rummy game if Danny could hold the points. He developed his hand late, into the following melds: nines of diamonds, hearts and clubs and the three, four, five and six of clubs. His remaining cards were ace of diamonds, ace of clubs, deuce of hearts and three of spades. Gin Tales

Rummy Club

Much to the delight and profit of the sundry playing card manufacturers, gin rummy is a great game for deck changers. One evening at the Friars Club, while a superstitious player was changing decks for the fifth time within an hour, his opponent asked him, “Wouldn’t you like to go back to the first deck?” Rummy Club

Winner Gets Spoils

I had left California just an average guy down on bus luck. I came back a celebrity. Telegrams and letters flooded us. My fame must have spread to the post office, because my postman told me that he was a poor card shuffler and asked if I would teach him how to shuffle. I got out of that one by telling him, “It’s just the same as sorting letters, only faster. Keep practicing.” Winner Gets Spoils

Gin Champs

Many persons standing over the green feet tables in Las Vegas also have a limit, but it’s money lost and not time. An average tourist has a figure fixed in his mind: “If I lose two hundred, I’ll quit.” A gambler can’t. If he wins, he wants more; if he loses, he wants to recoup. As my mother used to say, “They want to take home the tablecloth.” Gin Champs

Fanatical Player

The word anti venom is colloquial to a serpent bite, which could have drastic results if not attended to in time. Similarly the game of Gin Rummy is a very infectious game. So when you decide to play, there should be whole lot of forethought involved. It should never be the case of once bitten twice shy. Fanatical Player