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How to Create a New Card Game

Creating a new card game can be as easy as taking an old card game and changing some of the rules.  Just look at Hearts.

Hearts is a trick-taking card game for three to six players.  It is best played with four players.  The object of the game is to avoid taking Heart cards in tricks.

For each hand, the cards are dealt one at a time face-down around the circle as far as they will go equally.  Extra cards are laid aside, unseen.  The player with the Two of Clubs then becomes the first lead player.

The lead player lays down a card, and each player in turn moving clockwise around the circle lays down a card.  Those cards must match the suit of the lead card if possible.  The player playing the highest card in the suit that was lead takes the trick, and leads to the next trick.  A Heart card cannot be lead until one has been played that does not match the lead card.

Heart cards taken in tricks each score a point.  The player with lowest score when another player’s score reaches 100 wins the game.

New rules have been added over time to create new Hearts card games.  A three card pass was added after the deal and before play.  You pass three cards to a player, and a player passes three cards to you.

Another rule commonly called ‘Shoot the Moon’ was added.  With this rule, if you take all scoring cards during a hand, you score zero points, and each of the other players score the total of all scoring cards in play.  Or you subtract the total of all scoring cards from your current score.

One new rule made the Queen of Spades a scoring card worth 13 points, while another new rule made the Ten of Diamonds a scoring card worth minus-10 points.

With new rules came new names for some of these games.  People now play Black Queen or Omnibus Hearts instead of Hearts.

So what can you do to create a new Hearts game?

You could change the rules to make all of the red cards scoring cards.  Heart and Diamond cards would each score 1 point.  Or you could make Heart cards each score 1 point, and Diamond cards each score minus-1 point.

Or you could change the rules so that the Two through Nine of Hearts each score two points, while keeping the Ten through Ace of Hearts each scoring one point.

Or you could add some rules from Crazy Eights to make Hearts more interesting.  You could play a card with the same rank as the card laid down by the player to your right, no matter what the lead suit was.  And you could play an Eight and change the suit of the lead card.  (The Eight would belong to the new suit.)

Or you could change the criteria for winning the game.  The player with the second-lowest score when another player’s score reaches 100 wins the game.

Copyright (c) 2009 – Paul Hoemke.  All Rights Reserved.

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Poker Journal iPhone App Demo Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of 2 of a brief tour of the Poker Journal App for the iPhone. Poker Journal helps you track your poker playing both live and online, and helps you find where you play well, and where you may need to work on your game. Times your live games, so entry is quick and easy. Use this demo to see what the app does before you purchase it on the app store. Made by the author, Michael Golden.

Trusted Place to Buy Ds or Dsi games

Whether you buy R4 firmware or any R4 Ds or R4 Dsi cards, always go for the trusted places. Purchasing electronic goods is a good option from online stores too. Many websites are very simple to access and surf. They have this search tab where you can type the name of the product you are looking for. For instance, you can type the R4 ds or R4 cards in the search and get a list of devices related to it.

These online stores even offer good discounts and you can purchase these R4 cards for almost half the price at times. Don’t worry about the transaction. When you select your choice of R4 Ds or R4 dsi cards, the website will take you to another step where you need to fill all the necessary information. These online stores are all powered with secured software which is tested for the online transaction.

The R4i card for the Dsi games is the best newly launched flashcard in the market. The R4i is produced by the R4 team which is best known for its R4 cards from a long time. In 2008, the original R4 card making team broke up and since then other companies started making similar R4 cards using the original brand name. They were all hacks of the R4 firmware which is now getting outdated. To enhance your knowledge before you decide to buy R4 cards, you can either look for the information in the search engine or read the blogs, articles and reports. Whether you want any information on the R4 cards or the Ds or Dsi games or even the R4 software or R4 revolution, online research is the best option.

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Poker Journal iPhone App Demo Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of 2 of a brief tour of the Poker Journal App for the iPhone. Poker Journal helps you track your poker playing both live and online, and helps you find where you play well, and where you may need to work on your game. Times your live games, so entry is quick and easy. Use this demo to see what the app does before you purchase it on the app store. Made by the author, Michael Golden.

5 Poker Tips

Here’s some stuff that has helped me put some extra cash in my wallet.

Tip # 1 Here’s a great way to tell if you suck at poker (in case your not sure), Keep a spread sheet!!! Starting now log your wins and losses, dates etc… Even who you played with if you want to really keep track of what’s going on with your game. If you play a lot It’ll be pretty clear if you need to adjust your game or not, or maybe find a group of friends who are playing on the same level as you (beginner, advanced etc), cause getting as good as those guys who are consistently beating you is gonna get pricy! The school of hard knocks sucks, which brings be to my next tip.

Tip # 2  READ A BOOK!!! No not “To Kill a Mockingbird” a book on poker by someone who seems to win a lot, your Daniel Negraneaus, your Phill Helmuths, Doyle Brunson, ANY BOOK!!! These guys aren’t winning consistently because they’re lucky. They’ve been there done that and you can’t put a price on experience. So take $20 bucks and go get a poker book! Daniel Negraneau says “The day you admit you don’t know everything about poker is the day you actually start learning something”.  

Tip #3 Practice!!! Go log on to Full Tilt and open an account, try to play tournaments with your make believe chips, why tournaments? People tend to play tighter if they know that in order to cash they have to finish in the top 2 or 3. On line for fake chips people are total idiots and it becomes Bingo not Poker in “fake cash games” if anything you’ll get sucked into playing like a donkey cause “Hey, that guy just pushed all in with 7-3 off suit and won, why can’t I?” Cause you unlike him are trying to get better.

If you’re generally playing a home game with 4 to eight people in your weekly game, then don’t get all crazy in a 27 man tournament. Simulate your weekly game, use what the Pro’s told you and what knowledge you have and develop your game.

Tip#4 Set limits for yourself! Hold’em is a sick perverted game in which you are constantly trying to take other people’s money, God I love this game! But if you walk into a friendly cash game with $100 dollars be prepared to walk out without it. At the end of the night you walk to your car, cry on the way home, wonder how much of that $100 your gonna tell the wife you lost, but hey nobody made you push all in with pocket 3’s, you lost, Accept it. Even if you think you did everything right, you still are gonna have those nights. Only risk what your willing to lose.

Tip# 5 No book can teach you this one…but it is soooo important. PATIENCE!!!  If you have it then your probably a better poker player than most of your friends so cheers.

So there I am, I’m card dead, I forgot what a face card looks like and I’ve had 4-10 no less than 6 times in the last hour, well I can do one of two things, Get up and walk out or, wait for some cards. I suggest getting up and leaving but that’s no fun!  So be patient and wait for a decent hand. It also puts people on high alert that if your in a hand you probably finally got something so play that K-Q aggressively.

May the Nutz be with you!

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Poker Journal iPhone App Demo Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of 2 of a brief tour of the Poker Journal App for the iPhone. Poker Journal helps you track your poker playing both live and online, and helps you find where you play well, and where you may need to work on your game. Times your live games, so entry is quick and easy. Use this demo to see what the app does before you purchase it on the app store. Made by the author, Michael Golden.

Poker Journal iPhone App Demo Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of 2 of a brief tour of the Poker Journal App for the iPhone. Poker Journal helps you track your poker playing both live and online, and helps you find where you play well, and where you may need to work on your game. Times your live games, so entry is quick and easy. Use this demo to see what the app does before you purchase it on the app store. Made by the author, Michael Golden.

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