13/03/2008 by Alex.

Nicosia, Cyprus (PRWEB) March 11, 2008 –
Since RummyRoyal launched, the award-winning website has rolled out a long list of exciting promotions for registered players. From welcome bonuses to the new Royal Stars Club, the rewards are endless. This month, RummyRoyal unveils two scheduled special events designed to help registered players win big. On March 16, 2008, RummyRoyal will host the website’s first-ever online Saint Patrick’s Kalooki $1000 Freeroll, followed by an exclusive Kalooki $1500 Guaranteed Tournament on March 30, 2008.  

Kalooki (also referred to as Kaluki or Kalookie) is a popular Rummy game that combines the use of wild cards (Jokers) to add more fun and excitement to the game. Registered RummyRoyal members who are experienced Kalooki players, as well as those who are new to the variation, are invited to try their hand at winning the biggest freerolls yet offered on the RummyRoyal website. On March 16th and 30th, registered players will have the opportunity to participate in two exciting tournaments for a chance to win a $1000 and $1500 cash prize. A $7 buy-in is required for the March 30th tournament, and the cash prizes will be divided among the winners.

Players who would like to participate in the tournaments but are unfamiliar with Kalooki can visit the RummyRoyal website for an online demo, game preview, rules and helpful tips. To register for the tournaments, interested participants can click on the ‘Multi Tourney’ tab found in the application lobby, and then locate the ‘Register’ button once inside the tournament lobby.  Players will need to make at least one deposit into their RummyRoyal account in order to participate.   

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04/03/2008 by Alex.

I have been scouting out the best deals I can find for Rummy Royal and managed to find this 100% reload bonus if you use Neteller to fund your online rummy account.

If you don’t know what Neteller is - It is basically a very large online payment system much like paypal but it includes added extras like atm cards and all sorts - You can also instantly deposit and withdraw money using it with your Rummy Royal account - You can join Neteller at www.neteller.com

Good luck - I am off to find some more deals!

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27/02/2008 by Alex.

As a very regular player at Rummy Royal I have recieved a heads up on an exclusive $700 Kalooki tournment they have coming up this week - I have listed the details below.

The Details
$700 Gurantee Kalooki Tournament! Get a chance to play for your share of the Guaranteed $700 cash prize for a buy-in amount of as low as $7!

The When
This Wednesday – February 27th 2008 16:00 ET (21:00 GMT).

The Where
Simply go to the Multi-Tourney section inside the Rummy Royal lobby, click twice on the relevant tourney, followed by a click on the Registration button. If you need further assistance, contact me through the comment button

See you at the tables

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20/02/2008 by Alex.

As I play rummy online more and more I am finding that there are soooooo many different names for the same game but oddly the rules often also change depending on everything from which country you are in to the family you are playing against. In this post I am going to try and explain the main types of rummy, their common names and the basic characteristics.

The stats on the game of rummy itself are incredible for example did you know mahjong is a version of rummy and amazingly it is played by over 200,000,000 people and another 300 million rummy players to that and you have more than half a billion rummy players in the world which is huge and actually makes it the most popular online card game…..even bigger than poker! Much like poker though it isn’t just one game but is actually a whole bunch of different games that have spun off a core original game.

As mentioned the problem with rummy online is that there are no official rules posted anywhere however the basic fundamental principles of the game are the same, i.e. the style and strategy of each game. John McLeod from the game encyclopedia Pagat, advocates a method of separating Rummy games into a number of categories, including: Basic, Conquian, Knock, Contract, Asian, Meld Scoring, Canasta, and Manipulation.

Category 1 - Basic Rummy Games

Basic rummy games like standard rummy is about melding your whole hand as soon as you can thus making you the winner of the game. However as we have all found basic rummy still varies in its rules depending where you are, i.e. Kalooki (also kalookie, kaluki, kalukie) played in Europe and North America, Rummikub again played in North America which involves tiles as opposed to actual cards (FYI you can select using tiles in Rummy Royal if you like) Loba de Menos which is played in Argentina to name just a few.

Category 2 - Conquian Type Games

Conquian rummy also known as Panguingue stems form the early Spanish communities and although the objective is the same as basic rummy the method of play is very different. Instead of adding a drawn card to your hand  you have to use the last discard to add it to an existing set displayed on the table as soon as you pick the card up. If you don’t do this you must take the next card from the stockpile and put it on top of the discard pile for the next player to use.

Category 3 - Knock Rummy Games

The most common knock rummy game is of course Gin Rummy which like all knock rummy games allows you to only go out when your unmelded cards or deadwood add up to less than a predetermined point score, for example in Gin Rummy it is normally 10. The great thing is that if one of your opponents has less deadwood and therefore undercuts you they will score a bonus against you so you never really know who is the winner until the very end.

Category 4 - Contract Style Rummy

Contract Rummy is a type of rummy where the first meld follows a preset contract which then gets more and more complicated as each deal is made - Remember all Contract Rummy games have two decks. There are loads and loads of names for contract rummy including Shanghai Rummy, Liverpool Rummy, Joker rummy, Progressive Rummy, Carioca Kalooki, Push kalooki, Jamaican Kalooki, South African Kalooki and Telefunken. 

Within these different variations the amount and type of contracts used can vary massively. In Shanghai Rummy there is ten contracts, seven in Contract Rummy, five in Russian Rummy leaving only one in Continental Rummy.

 The most popular form of this version of the game is of course Contract Rummy itself followed Shanghai Rummy, Liverpool Rummy, and Russian Rummy.

Category 5 - Asian Style Rummy

Asian style rummy is played with both tiles and cards which vary a lot more than a normal set of playing cards creating a great number of variations - In addition the sets that you can go out on can vary depending on who or what version you are playing . In some versions you can pick up discards from others to make a set when it isn’t your turn and in other games certain matching sets can be viewed as more valuable than others.

The obvious and most common version of this game is of course Mahjong which as we have come to expect also goes under a bunch of different names including Mahjongg, Mah Jongg, Mah Jong, and Mah Jiang. Mahjong is played with tiles often called money cards across China and Taiwan and 99% of the time will involve some kind of gambling for money. Mahjong is more of a past time in Asia as opposed to simply a game.

Category 6 - Meld Scoring Rummy

Meld Scoring Rummy is very similar to Mahjong in that points are given for melds of which some melds are better than others and thus score higher. A good example of this game is Rummikub and Rummy 500 or 500 Rum, Romanian Tile Rummy, and Indonesian Remi which you probably worked out is Indonesian Rummy.

Category 6 - Manipulation Rummy

Although a different form of the standard game of rummy these games still employ many of the basic rules except that you can rearrange existing melds so that you can create new ones with your cards. Like basic rummy the objective is still to go out first but with this added twist it can get a little tricky. The most common types of this game include Rummikub and Carousel which also goes by Vatikan, Manipulation, and Sabre.

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15/02/2008 by Alex.

Rummy Royal has come on leaps and bounds since I started this blog on online rummy - Back then you could barely get a real money game now you have multi table tournaments and all sorts. Anyway I have listed all the latest developments below

I.    Multi-Table Tournaments have come alive at RummyRoyal and they are giving away more than $5,000 this month!!!

1. $10 Free roll every day (Click the banner below to be eligable to play in these).

2. $150 Midweek free rolls on Mondays and Thursdays 15:00 EST

3. $700 Guaranteed tournament on February 27th at 16:00 buy-in only $7.

II.   You can now enjoy a Loyalty Program based on Royal Stars they have earned. This is unique to Rummy Royal and is really really generous in terms if getting something extra back whilst you play. Check it out.

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09/02/2008 by Alex.

When I started playing at the site Rummy Royal, one of the things that anoyed me is that you could only play one table at a time. You couldn’t even be playing rummy on one table and register for a tournament at the same time.
Being an online poker player I like to play around 3 tables at a time whilst also registering for upcoming tournaments, so I found the lack of this function really iritating!!! So when the customer services guy called me up to see how I was getting on, I immediately told him he needs to sort this because it is ridiculous that they didn’t have the function, particulary because rummy is supposed to be the next online poker! Anyway to cut a long story short, Rummy Royal, have now allowed 3 table tournaments so get down there and have a few games!

And since then things have been good to me because I am now on $123.00 all from the free $10 I was bonused at the very start. I should have more but made a couple of mistakes and lost a few gin rummy games in a row which damaged my bankroll - But even better a friend of mine managed to get his $10 up to $1,200 from playing kalooki! Amazing

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27/10/2007 by Alex.

Guys, if you haven’t played at RummyRoyal yet - Get involved this weekend as I have just found out that they are running freerolls so you can have a game and possibly win $7 which will pay for another two elimination rummy tournaments!I know it doesn’t sound like much especially if you are like me and used to play a lot of online poker but I worked $10 on RummyRoyal to over $50 - Yes indeed - It has certainly taken me a while…mainly because I have been in the small games but I am now officially on $59 without putting any money in the site. Basically the way the rummy freerolls work is that you once registered you can enter one every 24hrs for 3 days so it really is a no brainer.

So here is what you do:

First download RummyRoyal.

• select ‘Real Mode’ inside the lobby
• choose Gin
• Then click on the Elimination Tourney tab

The special “Freeroll Tables” will be colored in yellow– you can’t miss them. Pull up a chair and join me at the tables!

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11/09/2007 by Alex.

When I wrote the title for this post I wasn’t thinking of the game you can buy in the shops but actually a version of rummi my mum taught us when we were kids. It was much like Gin Rummy but in my opinion a lot more fun!!

In my mummy’s version of rummy instead of putting the cards on top of eachother in the discard pile we would fan them out slightly horizontally, each time we laid one down so you could see all the discarded card. You could then pick up 1, 2, or as many cards as you liked in the “fan” however if you picked up more than one card the last card picked up would have to be immediately used as a meld.

By playing this version of rummy you could go out with a standard 3 and 4 card meld or if you have colleced cards loads of melds. The scorring would then be worked out as follows:

20pts - Going out first
5pt for all non picture and A cards laid out on the table in a meld
10pts for alll picture cards laid out on the table in a meld
15pts for all aces laid out on the table in a meld

In addition to the scoring above anyone with cards left in their hand needs these minused of their total score - these points are scored in the same way as they are added (see above.)

By scoring this way the person that went out first may not win because they have not formed enough melds to gain the points even with the 20pt bonus for going out first.

Give Mummy’s Rummy a go and let me know how you get on or if you have any questions.

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24/08/2007 by Alex.

I think this is a really interesting question particulary because I am a poker player and that hasn’t been passed by law as a game of skill but gin rummi has, which means I can gamble on rummi in the USA legally but not poker.

Gin rummi was officially passed as a game of skill back in 1965 by the US District Court of Las Vegas based on tesimony from experts ranging from some of the best players around at the time through to statisticians. 

But why did they pass this leglislation? Firstly in Gin Rummi there are a total of 15,820,024,220 possible ten-card hands and because of this no player will play the same game consistently plus players can actually choose to play with the cards they “catch” in different ways which is where the skill comes in. Remember as you get better the idea of rummi is to force your opponents to play the cards you want them to play - I will go through this startegy in another artcile soon, but first back to the stats that make rummi a skill game:

• In Gin Rummi there are 52 three-card melds of three of a kind — three jacks, three fours, etc.
• There are 44 melds of three cards of the same suit in sequence 3-4-5 of diamonds, 9-10-Jack of hearts, etc.
• Once you have achieved a three-card meld in Gin Rummi, the chances of extending three of a kind are twice less likely than extending a running sequence.
• Most sequence melds can be extended at either end, however three of a kind can only be added to by one card. 
• A Sequence meld of four cards can grow into a much higher number by adding cards to the sequence, but four of a kind have no further possibilities.

So there it is - I still don’t quite get it but according to the facts these were the stats presented in court to prove this is rummi is a game that you can win through skill and strategy.

Keep reading this blog and you will learn more and more and of course win even more! I am learning everyday and it is showing in my winnings! I will update you on my rummi diary in the next few days once I have got the numbers up a bit more!

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16/08/2007 by Alex.

Right - I am aware I may start sounding like an advert for Rummy Royal and I promise to put up some alternatives soon but I have to say this as I am very impressed.

I have played online poker for a number of years and do pretty well on it, once winning $3k from $30 but that story is for another day - What I wanted to say was that in all the poker rooms I played in, support was never that good….However since signing up with Rummy Royal I first received the free 10 bucks, and now just got a call from them asking my opinion on the games and how they could improve the site and even better than that: On top of their current 100% bonus match up offer they will give me $10 more as long as I deposit!

I guess because it is a new site and concept they really want the business so I won’t argue, but from the amount of players that are now signing up daily I would take advantage of what they have to offer sooner than later because they can’t keep giving this free money away to simply play rummi on their site!

Oh, and before I forget - My rummi diary….Well I haven’t deposited yet but probably will now for another free 10 dollars but at present I am on $17.50 - I have won a few but lost a few more so am not progressing quite as fast as I first started, mainly because I had a go in one of the more expenive games - But Hey! This is all free money for playing the game I love rummi!

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