Cribbage Discards: Expanded Edition Paperback – October 18, 2022

“Which two cards should I discard?” The question that every cribbage player has found themselves asking, is answered here in this Expanded Edition of the popular cribbage reference, Cribbage Discards.Updated with contemporary discard data, expanded to over 700 pages and now including more information than before, Cribbage Discards: Expanded Edition is a deep(er) dive into the world of discarding - a look at cribbage through a mathematical lens to uncover the subtleties of discarding that conventional wisdom tends to obscure.Listed inside is every possible cribbage hand – 18,395 hands in total – presented in numerical order from A-A-A-A-2-2 to Q-Q-K-K-K-K, with the mathematically optimal discard pair for both dealer and non-dealer shown for each hand.Look up any cribbage hand and quickly discover which two cards represent the best discard pair, according to math and playing card probability.New to this Expanded Edition:Flushes. Look up any hand to discover if keeping a flush is the optimal optionPlaying/pegging data. The points a hand will score on average during the playing phase is considered, to take into account the playing/pegging value of a given hand as a factor in discarding decisions, providing a truer value for the total number of net points a player may expect to score in a single roundContemporary discard data based on approximately 15 million cribbage hands, a noteworthy refresh of the data utilized in Cribbage Discards (4th ed.)Use this book to help make informed and logical discard choices, use this book as a learning tool, discover the math and playing card probabilities behind these recommendations and how to apply strategic discarding logic to your own gameplay, or simply use it as a fun guide to check if your discarding instincts align with the math; (you may be surprised!) Read more