Responsible Rummy Gaming!

Responsible Rummy Gaming

How to ensure that compulsive behavior is not encouraged?

What is Responsible gaming?

Playing a game and understanding when to stop and when to take a break is responsible gaming!

Any game is expected to be played for entertainment, and some people take it to the next level as a profession, but some people get addicted and don’t know when to stop or take a break which leads to compulsive behavior.

Rummy is a skill based game and can be learnt with proper guidance, and one can become a professional ( as we expect you to be once you are done reading this blog and practicing some of the important things learnt in this blog), a professional who understands when to play and when to drop, and when to leave the table!

Let us understand how to be a responsible gamer!

By practicing some of the below mentioned guidelines anyone can become a professional and act responsibly!

Do’s

1. Complete all the important works before starting to play on any game – Time management
2. Decide how much amount you are ready to wager (play with), which shouldn’t be attached to any win or lose! – Money Management
3. Time you want to spend on the game – Time Management
4. Check your mindset – It should be ready for entertainment and refreshing! – Att
5. Keep track of your success rate in the game – Stop when you are not winning and only loosing
6. Get into progressive gaming structure and start winning with small wagering amount tables and then start playing on big tables.

Don’ts

1. Never start a game when having other important works to be completed
2. Never play a game by taking loan
3. Never start a game when you are in hurry to leave and cannot finish a game which you have started ( that might lead you to lose the money already wagered on the table or make you take hurried decisions to complete the game fast)
4. Don’t bet money when your mindset is in negative state and that might lead you to play desperately and not allow you to use your knowledge and skill as a professionally.
5. Don’t keep playing if you lose more than 3 times continuously, and or lose the money which you have planned to wager.
6. Don’t start playing with all the money you planned to wager on 1^st table directly.

It is player’s responsibility to ensure that is not into compulsive behavior (Play all the games irrespective of cards and sets, and winning opportunity)

Taashtime observes closely its players activity on its site, and encourages responsible gaming and alerts its players if they observe that their players are becoming compulsive behavior!

Add your comments with more insights on Responsible rummy gaming!

 

Change of Hand in Rummy!

2.3 When do you change your hand? How to observe discarded cards to change strategy? Several situations. 

What is changing hand?

When a person start making certain sets and then picks up cards from open deck or closed deck, discards few cards and then decides to change the sets – this is called as changing hand!

Why do players change hand?

Players change their hand for the following reasons:

1. All the required cards to make a set are discarded by other players and they are not available for making the set anymore
2. Player may change the hand basing on the sets required to be formed and availability of the same in his hand!
3. There are smaller sets which are possible to make due to the new cards added to the set, hence discard the bigger cards and change hand!
4. Confuse the opponents

In each of the above case, most important factor would be to observe the cards discarded not just by immediate opponent player but also all the players playing  on the table.

Example:

In the above picture we can see that player has following probable sets

1. Spade 10, Hearts 10 – needs a Clubs or Diamond 10 ( which is a open card to pick)
2. Diamond 5, Clubs 5 – needs a Hearts or Spades 5 to make a set
3. Clubs 5, Clubs 6 – needs a Clubs 4 or 7 to make a set
4. Clubs 6 , Spades 6 – needs a Hearts or Diamond 6 to make a set
5. Diamond J , Clubs J – Needs a Hearts or Spades J to make a set

Observe the below picture:

After couple of rounds we observe that

1. Player has picked up Diamond 10 and made a triplet of 10’s and discarded Spade K which was not into any set.
2. Also he has picked a Hearts J to make a triplet of J’s discarded the Hearts 7 and Diamond 2 which were not into any set.
3. But if we closely observe we would find that there is no sequence still.

Change of Hand!

Now we can observe that

1. Player has changed the 10’s triplet set and Jack’s triplet set into three main sets and discarded Spade 10
   1. After receiving Diamond 9, player has made a main set Diamond 9 , 10 and J
   2. Hearts 10 and J along with a joker has become another set
   3. Discarding spade 10 reduced 10 points from the hand
   4. We can see that the player has picked up both Diamond 10 and Hearts J which are now useful to make main sets and not in the triplets for which they have been picked

Player may change the hand basing on the sets required to be formed and availability of the same in his hand!

Apart from above mentioned reasons player might have to also change his hand to stop the other player winning the game, till the player has reduced his points or for winning the game himself. – Professional players play to win and they play such technically skilled game – RUMMY IS A SKILL GAME

I believe this has given you more confidence and you are ready to play as a professional!

It is time for you to show your skill, play now and post your comments!