Gin is played with a standard 52-deck pack of cards. John Scarne's theory deriving Rummy from Poker through the medium of Whiskey Poker has not gained general acceptance. According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 19th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T.
