What You Need to Know About Gin Rummy: Gin rummy is a fun, exciting, fast game that's great to play with friends for a relaxing night, but it's even more fun when you start winning.

 

Oklahoma Gin Rummy is much closer to standard gin rummy than Kalooki. It uses the standard deck, and is limited to two players.

Gin Rummy Rules

in Gin Rummy, you're working toward same-kind sets or straight runs in the same suit. The deck is the standard 52 cards (in some cases, jokers are added as wild cards). Players receive six cards in a hand. You build "melds" (that's the same-kind sets and suit-matched straight runs) of three or more cards, which get laid down. One card is drawn each round, and one discarded; the draw can be from the deck or from the top of the discard pile. The winner of the hand is the first person to get rid of all his cards, and the losers count up the values of their cards (number value, plus ten points for each face card) and award you the "deadwood" points. Play is to a set point value. In the basic game, aces count as ones, you have four players, and point play is to 500. There are several variations.