Will Rummy Compete with Online Backgammon

The owners of the first online rummy room, Rummy Royal, believe the game embeds the perfect combination between skill and luck. As such, rummy is the closet game to poker the online gaming world has to offer, and as such it can compete with online backgammon and other games mentioned in the same breath as poker. 

Rummy and poker are both multi player card games that can be played by 2-5 players at once. Similar to poker, rummy is a general name of groups of games sharing the same mechanics of deal and discard cards and the final object to stay with a cardless hand.

Gin Rummy and Poker

If you are looking for another resemblance point, you can recall the not so far away times when gin-rummy, one of the most popular rummy games, was one of the hottest games in Las Vegas casinos. According to the legend, it was legendary poker player Stu Unger who single handedly ruined the gin-rummy scene simply by rising far above those who were regarded unbeatable. 

Of all rummy games (canasta, contract rummy, Oklahoma rummy, mahjong), gin-rummy is the most strategized, bearing the biggest resemblance to poker. As in poker, the gin-rummy player has to form the best possible hand of the cards he was dealt. Like poker and unlike backgammon and chess, games often compared to poker, the players' hands in gin-rummy are hidden from their opponents, what opens the possibility of bluffing, at least in the live version of the game. Naturally, players with phenomenal memory and mathematical skills will have an advantage, same as in poker and backgammon.