A comprehensive teaching course designed to develop skills and competence at playing more than 150 card games: including rules of each game, history, great players, strategies for successful play, with over 700 colour illustrations A complete illustrated guide to the world's greatest card games: poker, gin rummy, blackjack, solitaire, canasta, whist, contract bridge, piquet, newmarket, cribbage, pinochle, eights, ombre, setback, fan tan, president and many more