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    Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack)
    Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack)
    Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack)
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    Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack)

    By D. Angelo Ferri

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    You will learn how to play Tresette, Briscola, Sette e Mezza, and Orologio.
    I'll show you how to easily convert your standard deck of playing cards into the equivalent of an Italian deck of cards.
    Tresette and Briscola are trick taking games that can be played one on one or with partners.
    In Briscola it is illegal to signal your partner as to what cards you hold. That being said, it is a time honored tradition to signal your partner without the other team knowing it. I've included my own method for signaling your partner. It is based on the techniques of card sharpers of the 1930’s. You will learn the rules, basic and advanced strategy and methods on how to know what cards are still out.
    Sette e Mezza (Italian Blackjack) This game is traditionally played at Christmas time. When we were kids, we’d get a hand full of pennies each and play cards for money just like the grown ups.
    Orologio (The Watch) This is a betting game that gets it’s name because the cards are placed face up in a circle. This fast paced game is based completely on luck.
    Also included; exercises designed to make you a better player and sample hands to help you understand the progression of the games.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. Angelo Ferri
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9780463425565
    Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack)
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    D. Angelo Ferri

    Thank you for taking a look at my profile page. Welcome! My magic e-books are dedicated to my teacher Slydini. It is my sincere hope that some Magicians will take up a serious study of his Art and pass it on to another generation of Magicians. My e-book: The Glass through the Table is a free download, my way to introduce you to the Magic of my teacher, Slydini. . Ever since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated with Magic, those old time private eye movies, especially the Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, playing cards, and all things Italian. One night, while walking through the San Francisco Financial District, the idea for my own detective stories came to me. I’ve written two e-books that will teach you how to play some great Italian Cards games. My e-book: Scopa is a free download, my way to introduce you to my detective and the Italian Card Game Scopa.

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      Gioca Te! How To Play and Win Tresette, Briscola, and Sette e Mezzo (Italian Blackjack) - D. Angelo Ferri

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Understanding the Cards

      Open and Closed Games

      Briscola

      Keeping Score

      Rules

      Basic Play

      Intermediate Strategy

      Advanced Strategy

      Signaling

      Quick Review

      Tresette

      Rules

      Keeping Score

      Basic Play

      Intermediate Strategy

      End Game Strategy

      4 Handed Endings

      L'orologio / The Clock

      Sette e Mezzo / Seven and a Half

      Old School Sports Bet

      I’ll bet you can’t tell me who the first Major League ballplayer from either league to hit two grand slams during the same game was?

      About the Author

      Other Books by D. Angelo Ferri

      Introduction

      When I was a little boy, Sunday’s were wonderful. The entire family would gather for dinner at my grandparent’s apartment. After dinner it was time to play cards. My grandfather sat at the head of the table. My uncles, some of my aunts and cousins who were old enough, would take their places at the table. Those of us who were still too young to play would stand behind our fathers or a favorite uncle and watch the games.

      I loved the way those games brought the family together. Yes; they played Poker but before Poker, there was Briscola, Tresette, Scopa, Quindici and Sette e Mezzo (7 and a half).

      Many years later, when I was working in Manhattan, I began to play Briscola with the guys at the office. There were these two guys, Joe and Ben, second generation Italian Americans from Brooklyn. They always played as partners and they usually won. They had the best code (manner of telling each other what cards they held) that I had ever encountered.

      This aspect of Briscola always fascinated me. In addition to my writing, I am a professional magician and for a time I was consumed with Playing Cards. One of my most prized books is Scarne On Cards by John Scarne. Scarne was a walking encyclopedia of Gambling.

      Basically, there are two ways to manipulate playing cards. The magician wants to entertain and impress. He can pluck cards out of thin air, find lost cards, restore torn cards … but the man who manipulates playing cards in a card game wants to remain anonymous. He wants his skill with playing cards to go unseen. Scarne was the grand master at this type of manipulation.

      In Scarne on Cards you will find some very sophisticated methods for cheating at cards. Scarne exposed these techniques in the hopes of protecting honest players. During World War Two he gave lectures to American G.I.’s on how to avoid being cheated at all sorts of games of chance. He included methods for signaling a partner in a card game. He showed how professional gamblers used their hands in natural ways, natural postures, to communicate with their partners.

      This became the basis for my Briscola Code. I did some additional research about codes and found some wonderful deceptions. I call them wonderful because of the thought and guile that created these methods. I am not an advocate of cheating. BUT if you ever run into a couple of guys like Joe and Ben, (and you will if you take up Briscola) and you and your pal want to stand a chance of winning, you better know how to signal one another. It is a time honored tradition to signal your partner in these games!

      There is a particular coffee shop in my neighborhood where I go to read, study, and talk with friends. This is where I met Angelo.

      I am second generation Italian-American; Angelo was born in Rome. I’m not sure how we began to play cards together, but our games quickly became lessons. Angelo is the teacher and I am his student.

      He immediately reminded me of the man who taught me to be a Magician, the Great Slydini. Slydini was from Foggia, Italy. As Dick Cavet put it, Slydini reinvented an existing art. It is as if he created new notes to an existing scale of music.

      Slydini’s teaching methods stressed fundamentals that would produce excellence. His observations about performing magic and interacting with people were valuable life lessons.

      Like Slydini, Angelo was an instinctive teacher. He has a way of giving you information a bit at a time and once he sees that you understand it, he takes you to the next level. His insights can transcend the games at times and become valuable life lessons. I wanted this book to be like that.

      To begin, simply take any deck of standard playing cards and remove the eights, nines and tens. Now you have an ‘Italian Deck of Cards’. The king in your standard deck is also a king in an Italian deck of playing cards. The word for king in Italian is re (pronounced ‘ray.’)

      The queen in your standard deck is the cavallo (ka – val – o) in an Italian deck of playing cards. Cavallo means ‘horse.’ The

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