When a card game is played, the players arrange themselves in a circle around a horizontal surface on which the cards will be played. I will refer to this surface as the “table” although of course any flat surface can be used. The players face inwards, and are approximately evenly spaced (so that they cannot see each other’s cards). Turkey, in particular, is known to use the former design almost as a standard, keeping the French indices (V, D and R), despite the suits and the courts are locally referred to with Turkish names (see glossary at the end of the page). Bookmakers ordinarily accept bets on the outcome of…