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Stephen Smith
United States
Columbus
Mississippi
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Back in the summer of '89 (I think I can hear a tune to this), I was introduced to a number of standard deck card games. One of these was Rummy. For whatever reason, over the next year, rummy would become one of my favorite of the standard deck card games. The following year was my senior year in high school. Along with a couple of friends, I played a nearly year-long lunchtime game of rummy with scores into the tens of thousands. It was a lot of fun. I wish I still had the score sheets from those days.
Later on that year, another friend taught me the basics of Gin Rummy. For all practical purposes, this was (a style of) rummy for two. It became one of my favorite 2-player card games (along with Pinochle and Cribbage). At some point in time, someone gifted me with Phase 10 though I never really played it much. Toward the end of my college career, one of my regular gaming buddies taught quite a few of us how to play Canasta. It became the hot game for several months with frequent playing when we got together. Since those days, I haven't played nearly as many standard deck games, but I still have a soft spot in my hear for rummy and its siblings.
Aside: It's really neat to be able to add all of these links to standard deck card games in the database. Year's ago, you couldn't do this because adding card games to the database was a hit or miss prospect. There also was no entry for Traditional Card Games like we have now. Then it became possible to add these traditional games. Then it was forbidden to add them again. Now it seems they are OK, at least looking at the current guidelines. I'm just happy they're here now.
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