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Summary: Recognizing when you can't win a hand in fan solitaire happens when you start playing. Learn about other way to know when you've lost in fan solitaire from a champion poker player in this free card video.
Reg Brittain has benefited from the poker boom of recent years. In 2006, Brittain won $25,000 on Fox Sports Network's Poker Dome Challenge.read more
"So we call this segment how to know, how to recognize you will not win a hand, a given hand, when you're playing Fan. At what point do you know that the hand you're playing is not winnable? The fun thing about Fan, if you want to be honest, knowing you will not win the hand, it, it, it comes at the moment you choose to play this game. It's a, it's a long game, its fun, it, you get involved in it, but it's very hard to win. All that said, the, the moment you really recognize it comes when you have shuffled three times and you're on your third set of fans and you're out of plays. For instance here, I have no plays left on my board. I have fifteen fans plus one remnant in front of me, and there's nothing I can do. There are no building down sequences that can occur here, I'm out of moves. This is when you know that you, you've going to lose a hand in Fan."