Advanced Cribbage Strategy

As many of you who play other card games know, you can pull many tricks and approaches from other card games and apply them to cribbage. Poker seems to lend itself especially well to other games, and cribbage is no exception. There's a concept in poker called "Levels of Thinking." It has to do with how deeply you are analysing the situation. There are generally three accepted levels of thinking; let's look through each of them. Read more »

I had a hand recently come up at Grass Roots club last week (shameless plug: Thursday nights in Lake Worth, we're always looking for new members!) that reminded me the importance of always considering every option available, even when the cards seem obvious.

It was early on in the game, I had the deal and was ahead 50-44. I was dealt a beauty of a hand, 2-4-6-7-J-Q rainbow. My opponent discarded quick, so either he had a nice hand, or he was throwing me garbage, so I tossed the Q-J in hopes to cut to 8 in the crib. Fortunately, I cut a deuce, and my 2 point hand went to 8. Read more »

As someone who's played poker on a somewhat serious level, I'm always interested in seeing the parallels between poker and cribbage appear. One of my favorite connections is what poker players call "tells". While these don't work for the internet game for the most part, in live cribbage, recognizing these tells can give you an extra edge over most of your opponents. Read more »