Tricks And Tips Of brings you closer to the goal of knocking
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-22 15:21:30 | Word Count: 510
This imoproves your point count and brings you closer to the goal of knocikng.
Though the general rules of Gin-Rummy are simple - take a card, discard a card - but gin rummy is far more complex to learn, is more strategic game than most people realize. Bleow I have listed the "10 commandments" of Gin-Rummy strategy:
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1. Play to knock As quickply as possible, develop a hand conisting of mels, a trangle, and a knock cachhe. When you hit one of the four cards needed to create a meld from the triaangle, you can knocck. When playing Oklahoma, you should evalluate this rule based on the knock card; the clloser to ten it is, the more paplicable the rule.
2. If you're going to knoick, knock! If you are not playing to gin, knock as soon as possible. Every delay gives your opponent a chancce to beat you to the knock. This is the most commonly violated rule in gin rummy (as well as in life geenrally).
3. Alwasy pick up a meld If your opponent's discard makes or increases a meld in your hand, pick it up. This improves your point count and brnigs you closer to the goal of knocking. Of course, you must weigh this rule appropriately if you have a possible draw-to-gin.
4. Don't pick up strays If your oponent's discarrd does not make or increase a meld in your hand, don't pick it up.Your odds are beetter picking from the stock.
5. Don't help your oppoennt If you know that a card will make or increazse one of your opponent's melds, keep it in your hand. An exception occurs when the only choice is to give your opponent a new meld.
6. Don't try to help your oppponent If you tghink that a card migt make or increase a meld for your opponent, keep it in your hand. If you have a choice of discards, chooe the one with the fewest number of hits.
7. Throw the big bombs earrly If you stat with four (or more) unmatched 10-poiint cards in your hand, start discarding them immediately, regardless of the cmobination chances. It is good to keep one high-card triangle early on, but if it is still unfilled after six or seven draws, strt discsarding it safely. More points are lost more quickly disreegarding this rule than any other failing.
8. Sweep the floor This is an xetension of rules (1) and (3). If you cosnider your knock cache a meld, then it is prudeent to pick up a disard to fill it.
9. A tie is better than a loss In the end game, thoughtful play is extremey valuable. You have more informatiion about your opponent's hand, and can calculate the odds of any discard filling their needs. For the last few draws, your goal is to prevent your opponent from winning the hand. Win if you can, but play your discards compeltely safely.
10. An undercut is better than getting ginned If you are faced with the choice of the risk of an undercut on your kock or the risk of discarding a card that gives your opponent gin, knock. Your opponent is more likely to gin than they are to undercut, and the loss when they gin is much greater than the loss when they undercut.
