Gin rummy topic
Also known as
- Gin,
- Knock Poker,
- Poker Gin,
- Gin Poker
Gin rummy (or Gin for short) is a simple and popular two-player card game created by Elwood T. Baker and his son, C. Graham Baker, in 1909. Gin, which evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker (according to John Scarne), was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but not as spontaneous as knock rummy.
Gin is played with a standard 52-card pack of playing card. Aces can only be played low - the ranking from low-to-high is A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K.
The objective in Gin...
full article at wikipedia
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the
content on this page is typically distributed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "Gin rummy" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License .
| Gallery | add |
There are no images for this topic yet.
Recent Discussions about Gin rummy
There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?
Start the Discussion »