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Whist - Handbooks, manuals, etc. - Early works to 1800
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Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal or advantageous terms. Including the laws of the several games. To which is now first added, two new cases at whist, never before printed. Also, the new laws of the game at whist, as played at White's and Saunder's Chocolate Houses.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1763?]- Books
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A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. References to cases, viz. At the end of the rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well any hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By Edmond Hoyle, gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]