Gin Rummy
| by arjun | July 05, 2007
My private card game survey reveals that Rummy with its 46 million adherents is the second most popular card game in America. There are a hundred or more games in the rummy family, some of which are Gin Rummy, Canasta, Six- and Seven-Card Knock Rummy, Skarney, 500 Rummy, Fortune and Continental. The most popular of all rummy games is Gin.
My survey also shows that of the 90 million adult card players, 20 million men and 8 million women prefer Gin Rummy to any other card game, and 7 million men and 4 million women of the remaining 62 million admit to playing Gin Rummy occasionally. This total of 39 million (27 million men and 12 million women) regular and occasional Gin Rummy players makes Gin the most popular head-to-head (two-¬handed) card game in the world.
My survey further reveals that about 20%, or $30 billion, of the $150 billion private card game gambling handle is wagered at Gin Rummy each year.
The reasons for the popularity of Gin Rummy are: (1) it is easy to learn and simple to play; (2) it is one of the finest head-to-head games; (3) it is fast moving and has plenty of surprising and unexpected results; (4) it has such great competitive and sustained action that it will hold one's interest without a penny at stake; (5) all players think they are good at the game-when they lose they attribute it to bad luck, when they win it's skill; (6) although Gin is basically a two-handed game, it is also an excellent game for three, four, six or eight players.
Gin requires far less skill than two-handed Pinochle or Klob (Kala-brias) and is favored by the less skilled players because they can win against a skilled opponent more often than they would at Pinochle or Klob. Even the poor Gin player becomes convinced that he plays well; in no other card game do you find so many self-styled local champions.
Although Rummy gambling is illegal in all states, Nevada per¬mits the annual running of the Las Vegas Gin Rummy Tournament because parts of the proceeds go to local charities. This tournament was originated by a group of Las Vegas hotel and casino owners who realized that most Gin players, unlike Bridge players, are by nature gam¬blers who crave action and therefore also play Black Jack, Craps or the one-armed bandits.
The Las Vegas hotel casinos underwrote the expenses of the first tournament in 1957, which was first advertised as the National Gin Rummy Tournament. This event, as expected, helped the local charities and brought additional business into the Strip hotels and casinos. Since then it has been an annual event, with the Las Vegas hotel casino group underwriting the overhead. It is now called the International Gin Rummy Tournament.
Generally speaking, the tournament is a knock-down drag-out elim¬ination contest; in the opening rounds of the first two days each contestant plays a 250-point game with each of 16 different opponents. The winners of 13 or more games go on to more advanced rounds. With such a setup, luck is much more important than skill, which is what the tournament sponsors intended.
In Las Vegas there is also an annual "Cardcutta Sweepstakes," where you can "buy a player," similar to a Calcutta in golf (see page 137).
But the Las Vegas hotel casinos select the slow season for this event and they care little or nothing who is crowned the World's Gin Rummy Champion. All they are interested in is that the tournament has proven a great boon to casino business in general. Several Gin Rummy contestants recently lost $250,000 at the Craps tables during their time off from tournament play. The annual Gin Rummy Tournament has proven itself so profitable to Las Vegas casinos that they have branched out and have added to their schedule an annual World Series Poker Tournament (which of all things involves the playing of Klondike or Hold-'em, (variants of Spit in the Ocean), a North American Backgammon Championship and a World Bridge Tournament to help increase their table action during the slow season.
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My survey also shows that of the 90 million adult card players, 20 million men and 8 million women prefer Gin Rummy to any other card game, and 7 million men and 4 million women of the remaining 62 million admit to playing Gin Rummy occasionally. This total of 39 million (27 million men and 12 million women) regular and occasional Gin Rummy players makes Gin the most popular head-to-head (two-¬handed) card game in the world.
My survey further reveals that about 20%, or $30 billion, of the $150 billion private card game gambling handle is wagered at Gin Rummy each year.
The reasons for the popularity of Gin Rummy are: (1) it is easy to learn and simple to play; (2) it is one of the finest head-to-head games; (3) it is fast moving and has plenty of surprising and unexpected results; (4) it has such great competitive and sustained action that it will hold one's interest without a penny at stake; (5) all players think they are good at the game-when they lose they attribute it to bad luck, when they win it's skill; (6) although Gin is basically a two-handed game, it is also an excellent game for three, four, six or eight players.
Gin requires far less skill than two-handed Pinochle or Klob (Kala-brias) and is favored by the less skilled players because they can win against a skilled opponent more often than they would at Pinochle or Klob. Even the poor Gin player becomes convinced that he plays well; in no other card game do you find so many self-styled local champions.
Although Rummy gambling is illegal in all states, Nevada per¬mits the annual running of the Las Vegas Gin Rummy Tournament because parts of the proceeds go to local charities. This tournament was originated by a group of Las Vegas hotel and casino owners who realized that most Gin players, unlike Bridge players, are by nature gam¬blers who crave action and therefore also play Black Jack, Craps or the one-armed bandits.
The Las Vegas hotel casinos underwrote the expenses of the first tournament in 1957, which was first advertised as the National Gin Rummy Tournament. This event, as expected, helped the local charities and brought additional business into the Strip hotels and casinos. Since then it has been an annual event, with the Las Vegas hotel casino group underwriting the overhead. It is now called the International Gin Rummy Tournament.
Generally speaking, the tournament is a knock-down drag-out elim¬ination contest; in the opening rounds of the first two days each contestant plays a 250-point game with each of 16 different opponents. The winners of 13 or more games go on to more advanced rounds. With such a setup, luck is much more important than skill, which is what the tournament sponsors intended.
In Las Vegas there is also an annual "Cardcutta Sweepstakes," where you can "buy a player," similar to a Calcutta in golf (see page 137).
But the Las Vegas hotel casinos select the slow season for this event and they care little or nothing who is crowned the World's Gin Rummy Champion. All they are interested in is that the tournament has proven a great boon to casino business in general. Several Gin Rummy contestants recently lost $250,000 at the Craps tables during their time off from tournament play. The annual Gin Rummy Tournament has proven itself so profitable to Las Vegas casinos that they have branched out and have added to their schedule an annual World Series Poker Tournament (which of all things involves the playing of Klondike or Hold-'em, (variants of Spit in the Ocean), a North American Backgammon Championship and a World Bridge Tournament to help increase their table action during the slow season.
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It's time to profit from your Rummy skills.
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