1 Chapter 2TABLE 2-1 Scoring Systems for Poker Patience

      2 Chapter 4TABLE 4-1 Hand-by-Hand Score of a Sample Gin Rummy GameTABLE 4-2 Harry and Sandy’s Final Scores

      3 Chapter 5TABLE 5-1 Initial Meld Point Requirements

      4 Chapter 14TABLE 14-1 Pinochle Point-Value ScalesTABLE 14-2 Scoring Tables for Auction Pinochle

      5 Chapter 20TABLE 20-1 Your Drawing Chances for Draw Poker

      1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: At the start of Accordion, your cards may fall in this manner.FIGURE 2-2: You can match cards that are three places away from each other to f...FIGURE 2-3: Look ahead to see which move to make first.FIGURE 2-4: Playing the waiting game can help you make up your mind.FIGURE 2-5: A sample game of Calculation.FIGURE 2-6: Starting a game of Canfield.FIGURE 2-7: Only one series of moves can get you out of this mess.FIGURE 2-8: Starting a game of La Belle Lucie.FIGURE 2-9: Your game begins to take shape after you make the automatic moves.FIGURE 2-10: A hand of Poker Patience after ten cards.FIGURE 2-11: Don’t be tempted by the bottom row. Go for the points!FIGURE 2-12: Dumping a straight to go for the higher-scoring full house.FIGURE 2-13: Creating a junk pile is a normal thing for Poker Patience.FIGURE 2-14: Sometimes you have to get lucky to make something out of this big ...FIGURE 2-15: Spite and Malice. Player A’s excellent adventure.

      2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Legal runs follow the same suit; legal sets consist of the same ran...FIGURE 4-2: An illegal run.FIGURE 4-3: Waiting for the right cards.FIGURE 4-4: Time to choose or lose.FIGURE 4-5: Dismantle a pair and perhaps draw a building card.FIGURE 4-6: The winner collects points from the deadwood in the loser’s hand.FIGURE 4-7: Someone’s knocking at the door; someone’s racking up some points.FIGURE 4-8: Add cards to combinations after your opponent knocks.FIGURE 4-9: Go ahead and knock with this hand.

      3 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Legal melds follow the wild card and ranking rules.

      4 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Running high and low in all the suits.FIGURE 7-2: Letting go of the hot potato loaded with end cards.FIGURE 7-3: In Trump Fan Tan, spades can have multiple identities.

      5 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: Play a finesse to save your high cards for later tricks.

      6 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: A hand with plenty of potential — but no guarantees!FIGURE 9-2: With clubs as the trump suit, the bidding and scoring for this hand...FIGURE 9-3: Aces and trump cards make for a strong Ninety-Nine combination.FIGURE 9-4: You may have plenty of trump clubs, but you have no convenient disc...FIGURE 9-5: Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but not here.FIGURE 9-6: Low cards and aces are a potent combination for a declaration.FIGURE 9-7: Having sure tricks and sure losers.FIGURE 9-8: Nearly a sure thing.

      7 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Card ranks when clubs are the trump suit.FIGURE 10-2: A promising hand; how many tricks can you take?FIGURE 10-3: Caution! Your partner’s help wanted!

      8 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Deciding what to bid.FIGURE 11-2: With a hand like this, bid nil.FIGURE 11-3: Adjust your bid if your partner bids blind nil.

      9 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: Keeping your hearts may be the wisest decision.FIGURE 13-2: The spade suit spells the safest policy.

      10 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: A promising sample hand.FIGURE 14-2: Ready for the