Hoyle's Games Improved: Containing Practical Treatises on Whist, Quadrille, Piquet ... : Carefully Revised and Corrrected from the Latest and Best Authorities

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G. Long, 1829 - 291 pages
 

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Page 274 - If the players have crossed each other, he that runs for the wicket which is put down is out.
Page 61 - ... 70. It is equally advantageous to lead up to as through an ace; not so much so to a king ; and disadvantageous to the queen turned up.
Page 52 - ... the deuce in your hand, and you frequently deceive him by throwing down superior cards, it will destroy his confidence, and prevent his playing his game on similar occasions. I would wish to inculcate these minor qualifications of whist playing to the beginners, because they are attainable by every body ; and when once the great advantage of this kind of correctness is seen, the worst player would practice it as constantly as the best— attention being all that is necessary.
Page 72 - The second, and most material, is, that your partner, if he wins the trick, may lead out trumps, on the supposition it is your strong suit, or the adversaries from suspecting your intention. On the contrary, the constant and certain advantages are the preservation of the tenace in the other two suits, which I suppose you to have, and the probable one of making your small trumps, which you could not otherwise do. A has four small trumps, ace, queen, &c. of the second suit ; king, knave,
Page 115 - Vingt-un happen, the dealer pays single stakes to all whose numbers under twenty-one arc higher than his own, and receives from those who have lower numbers; but nothing is paid or received by...
Page 272 - Ball must weigh not less than five ounces and a half, nor more than five ounces and three quarters.
Page 45 - If your partner refuses to trump a suit, of which he knows you have not the best, lead your best trump.
Page 40 - For the return of a small card will more distress than strengthen your partner. 2. If you hold a good sequence. For then you may show a strong suit, and not injure his hand. 3. If you have a strong suit. Because leading from a strong suit is a direction to your partner; and cannot injure him.
Page 187 - If you bear any number of men before you have entered a man taken up, and which, consequently, you were obliged to enter, such men, so borne, must be entered again in your adversary's tables, as well as the man taken up.
Page 38 - If you hold a sequence to your highest card in the suit, play the lowest of it. For by this means your partner is informed of your strength.

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