Oklahoma Gin Tips

The following tips will help you in dealing and building your game strategy with everything concerning the Oklahoma Gin version. We warmly recommend you to learn this tips and memorize them, this will help you when you become more professional and experience with a large number of games, considering certain moves which you will experience during the game.

The Deck of Cards

In the Oklahoma Gin version a single 52 cards deck is played with no Jokers. Each card appears once.

Drawing the Cards

Drawing a card at the beginning of each turn is the most important move and it affects the whole game. Don't forget you have the option of drawing a card either from the discard pile or the deck pile.

Discarding a card

At the end of each turn, the card discards a card to the discard pile and ends his turn with this move. Discarding the card plays a major rule in the game strategy and it has an important meaning.

Melding

Since the Oklahoma Gin version has no minimal condition for melding, and you meld only when you perform the finishing move of a knock or gin, you must remember that this move happens when you get to around half a deck. This is why on the first rounds you need to create as many series as possible till this move.

The Knock

Performing the knock is the most important move and you must pay attention to which stage you should use it when you participate in elimination tourneys or when you participate in single round games. It differs. Finishing Move An important tip when you perform the

Finishing move

is to try and create at least 1 four card series, this is something which gives you a bigger chance to go for the Gin since your other series can be built from 3 cards.

In case you stay with 4 non matching cards in your hand, let's say for example 7 spades, 8 clubs, 7 diamond and 4 heart, it is better that you get rid of the 4 heart card as it has no connection to the other 3 cards and with the other it will be easier to create a series with more options.

Single Game

In a single one round game, there's no point of counting the points as they have no value at the end of the game. This is why it's better to wait for a Gin move which eliminates every chance of the other players to beat you with an undercut. This is differently than the elimination tourneys where the negative points of the cards in your hand are counted against you when you lose.

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