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A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a Beginner may, with due Attention to them, attain to the Playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any Point of the Score of the Game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good Player in Critical Parts of the Game. References to Cases, viz. at the End of the Rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral Certainty, how to play well any Hand or Game, by shewing the Chances of your Partner's having 1, 2, or 3 Certain Cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By Edmond Hoyle, gent. to the Laws of the Game, and an Explanation of the Calculations which are necessary to be understood by those who would play it well, &c. &c.
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Author Hoyle, Edmond
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(Reusing this file)		 Fleuron A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers' Ornaments.
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London
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printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle-Temple-Gate
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History and Geography
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T179964
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