It is not for nothing that card games are considered the most gambling games, because it is in them that such human qualities as intelligence, ingenuity, cunning and speed of action are manifested. It is believed that there are four types of card games: family, gambling, folk and commercial.
Family and folk card games
Family and folk types of card games are the simplest and most understandable for most people, there are no intricate moves, everything is quite simple and concise. The game "fool" is very much loved, which can be played by two to six players. Each of them is dealt six cards, the last card after the deal will be a trump card. The goal of the whole game is to get rid of your cards by beating the opponent's low card with your own high card or trump. The player who has the cards in his hand will be the loser, who is jokingly called the "fool".
Both adults and children play such games, but only adults play gambling or commercial types, moreover, in a number of countries, for involving a minor in the game, real imprisonment threatens.
Commercial and gambling card games
Commercial types include: poker, blackjack, point, macao, seca and many others. The most popular game is poker, its rules are simple, but the game itself requires concentration of attention and logic, because the player needs to build a profitable combination of a small number of cards. Yes, so that she "beat" the combination of opponents.
Each of the players receives two cards that the opponent should not see, after that five cards are gradually laid out for everyone, any of the players can use them to build poker combinations.
Over the course of four rounds, each player makes money bets into the total pot, which will go to the winner. In the final, the players take turns revealing their personal cards, and the winner is the one whose poker hand is stronger than the others.
There are poker tournaments in many countries of the world, which are attended by thousands of gamblers every year.
Exclusively commercial types of card games are considered: bridge, whist, preference, thousand. All of these types are complex, have real sets of rules, according to which even educational books and manuals are published.
A commercial game such as bridge is considered the only recognized sports game in the world. Bridge is played by four players, partners are the players who sit opposite each other. Even the seats at the table have their own names and are divided into cardinal directions, that is, South, West, East and North.
They play not with a standard 36-card deck, as usual, but with a 52-card deck. The main task of a pair of players is to score the maximum number of points.