How to Win at Gin Rummy

Playing for Fun and Profit

Pramod Shankhar

• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• eBook ISBN:
  9781648374715
• Year: 2021

What makes gin rummy winners win? Since the game first emerged in North America nearly a century ago, players have had to rely solely on experience, instinct, and trial and error to faintly grasp the principle behind winning. Avid card player and mathematical analyst Pramod Shankar, PhD is the first to subject gin rummy to the kind of scientific scrutiny that long ago transformed the games of bridge and blackjack. He shares his discoveries in How to Win at Gin Rummy, an easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement guide that is virtually guaranteed to lift the level of anyone's game-and to increase winnings for money players. Readers will learn: - How to analyze a gin hand - Effective playing strategies and psychological ploys - The ten Golden Rules of Rummy - A simple, step-by-step approach to figuring out an opponent's hand - The logic behind lucky streaks - Useful odds and statistics - And much more! With clear and comprehensible explanations of the basics of play for the beginner, and a wealth of more advanced playing strategies for experienced players, How to Win at Gin rummy will help readers win consistently-and win more money-especially against players who don't know the facts available exclusively in this book!

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Cards and Card Combinations
• 2 Analysis of Gin Hands
• 3 Elementary Playing Strategies
• 4 Advanced Playing Strategies
• 5 Figuring the Opponent’s Hand
• 6 Card Discarding and Withholding
• 7 Statistics of Gin Rummy
• Epilogue
• Glossary of Gin Rummy
• Rules of Gin Rummy
• Subject Index