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Fan Tan, dominoes if you will, because they use that term I guess in some of the European
sites. And it is just basically an old fashioned card game that really gives a premium emphasis
on being able to get rid of lead, get rid of the hand. Dumb all of your cards out first.
Fan tan will remind you a little bit of solitaire. For example, I believe in solitaire you have
to alternate the suites, you know king of spades, queen of hearts a red card, then a
black card and a red card. But the thing is the sequencing. It is the natural order of
play. It is the absolute sequencing of the game that makes the difference. Fan tan is
rich, it is fat. It is forty points, it is forty points for the taking. Unfortunately,
if you do not get the forty or at least twenty-five it is a disaster. You do not want to call
fan tan then shell over forty points to some body else. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy
if I can rip off some body else's fan tan call. Because then if I can get forty on my
own, that is eighty points. That is going to make up for a lot bad hands if you have
got queens or even the King of Hearts. When do you call fan tan? Well you certainly, and
we will just hold this illustrative hand to the side for a second. That is a bad fan tan hand, why? Well, you
have got the ace of spades and the three of spades. Aces are high, deuces are low. There
is no downtown. So in order for you to get rid of this spade suite it is going to take
an awful lot of power to get this thing, to get the opponent to play this for you. Same
problem here, tops and bottoms. This is an okay suite, this one is a little better. Fan
tan you never call when you have aces and kings and deuces and threes or fours in the
same suite; there is just too much of a spread. Now let us look at an ideal fan tan hand.
Now that is a beauty.