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Scarne on Card Games: How to Play and Win at Poker, Pinochle, Blackjack, Gin and Other Popular Card Games | 
| Author: John Scarne
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $8.95
Buy New: $3.94
You Save: $5.01 (56%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0486436039
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.41
EAN: 9780486436036
ASIN: 0486436039
Publication Date: June 18, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your money August 6, 2008
Yeshua's Follower (Dallas, Texas)
Scarne does it again! First I discovered Scarne invented poker. Now I learn that he invented every other popular card game out there. Don't waste your time or money reading this book. Scarne wastes most of the space, as he does in his other books, bragging about himself. The book is over 400 pages long and it only addresses NINE games: Gin Rummy, Black Jack, Poker, Pinochle, Cribbage, Pitch, Casino, Kalabrais, and Hearts (including, of course, "Hearts According to Scarne"). Now, if you really really wanna learn how to determine if someone's cheating you in Rummy or determine if the cards in your Pinochle game are marked, I guess you can read those chapters. Much of the stuff in this book appears to be little more than cut and pasted from Scarne's other books anyway.
Overall, very little useful information and Scarne is so arrogant throughout the book that you'll quickly grow weary and turn the TV on.
What happened to the photographs??? July 12, 2004
R. Li (Stony Brook, NY USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a Dover reprint of the 1965 edition of Scarne on Cards. However, the photos showing card cheating techniques are missing. Also, the reprint is the abridged paperback version by Mass Paperbacks. While Dover is famous for printing its books on high quality paper that are signature-stitched so that it can last a lifetime (and possibly be rebound), none of this is present. The paper it's printed on is like the paper of a low-quality paperback and not signature-stitched. I was hoping that it would have come out much better and unabridged.
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