Card Games for Two Players

Name	Category	Complexity	Duration	Materials
Poker The ultimate game of skill, strategy, and psychology	🃏 Card	Medium	30-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Poker (Heads-Up No Limit)	🃏 Card	Very Hard	30 minutes to several hours	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips +1
Porrazo	🃏 Card	Easy	15-30 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck (or standard deck without 8s, 9s, 10s)
Put	🃏 Card	Easy	10-20 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Racing Demon	🃏 Card	Easy	10-20 min	🃏 One 52-card deck per player (different backs)
Razz The worst hand wins	🃏 Card	Medium	20-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Regicide	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Ronda	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck (or standard without 8s, 9s, 10s)
Rubamazzo	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 40-card Italian deck (or standard without 8s, 9s, 10s)
Rummy	🃏 Card	Easy	20-40 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 📝 Paper and pencil for scoring
Russian Bank	🃏 Card	Medium	30-45 min	🃏 Two standard 52-card decks (different backs recommended)
Schnapsen	🃏 Card	Hard	15-30 minutes	🃏 20-card Schnapsen deck (or 52-card deck with 2-9 removed)
Schotten Totten	🃏 Card	Easy	15-20 minutes	📦 Schotten Totten game box
Scopa	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 minutes	🃏 40-card Italian deck or standard deck with 8-10 removed
Sechsundsechzig	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 min	🃏 24-card deck (9s through Aces)
Sedma	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 minutes	🃏 32-card deck (standard deck with 2-6 removed)
Sedmice	🃏 Card	Easy	15-20 min	🃏 32-card deck (7s through Aces)
Seven Card Stud The classic game of reading opponents	🃏 Card	Hard	20-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Short Deck Hold'em Smaller deck, bigger hands	🃏 Card	Hard	15-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Sixty-Six	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 minutes	🃏 24-card deck (standard deck with 2-7 removed)
Skitgubbe	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Slap Jack	🃏 Card	Very Easy	10-20 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Snap	🃏 Card	Very Easy	5-15 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Speed	🃏 Card	Easy	5-15 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Spit	🃏 Card	Easy	10-20 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Spite & Malice	🃏 Card	Easy	20-45 minutes	🃏 Two standard 52-card decks
Spite and Malice	🃏 Card	Medium	20-45 minutes	🃏 Two standard 52-card decks 📦 4 Jokers
Star Realms	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 minutes	📦 Star Realms game box
Stud Hi-Lo High and low split the pot	🃏 Card	Very Hard	20-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Svoi Kozyri	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 min	🃏 36-card deck (6s through Aces)
Tablic	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Tablić	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Tartli	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 min	🃏 32-card deck (Hungarian/German suited or standard 7-A)
Tonk	🃏 Card	Easy	10-20 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Trash	🃏 Card	Very Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck (2 decks for 3-4 players)
Truc	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck
Tute	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck
Twenty (Card Game)	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 minutes	🃏 24-card deck (standard deck with 2-8 removed)
War	🃏 Card	Very Easy	10-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Xeri	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Yaniv	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 📝 Paper for scoring
Zsírozás	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 32-card deck (7s through Aces)
Écarté	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 min	🃏 32-card deck (7s through Aces)

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