It wasn’t until about the 15th century that our four modern suits evolved, probably in France. But how on earth did we end up with these four rather disparate icons? And why red and black? Let’s delve into the dirty details.
Tag: cards
Terms from sports and game have become a big part of our language and poker terms are some of the most common.
By learning, teaching, and playing these bad boys, you can feel like you’ve journeyed to a different place without even leaving your kitchen table. Here are a few of our favourites along with recommendations for some country-specific snacks you could serve alongside to enhance the experience even more.
Meltdowns and temper tantrums might be something that you would traditionally associate with a poker game – turns out that the same thing takes place at many bridge games. Rudeness and obscenities at the bridge table are nothing new. When the stakes are high and it’s win or lose, stress levels go up and tempers …
Even a few thousand games in, most bridge players will still have fond memories of the first time they picked up some cards. We spoke to some big personalities in bridge about their first impressions, fondest memories and how they got started.
Michael Xu, of Palo Alto CA, first started playing bridge thanks to being invited to a Silicon Valley Youth Bridge party which he says is hosted every month.
Money bridge was huge at one point, but it seems like it’s disappeared from the scene, leaving precious few options left where you can play an online bridge game for cash. We wondered why there aren’t more readily available options for money bridge through online casinos, so we went digging.
There are thousands of different card decks that are a perfect gift for anyone who loves cards, or classic films, horror movie characters, action stars or naked people. There are themed card decks for almost everything, so what about the card decks that are a little quirky and just a little off-putting – but weird …
Making a string bet in a public cardroom is one of the most common beginner mistakes. Read on to get the low down.
All about Anaconda: we played Anaconda regularly in the nightly game that lived in the basement of my dorm at Stanford. Interesting situations frequently came up.
