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Pool Rummy
Pool Rummy on First Games is many 13-card deals with a running point total. Hit the cap printed on the table — 101 on some rooms, 201 on others — and you are out. The last player still under the cap takes the pool. It is not Points’ one-deal rupee multiply, and it is not Deals’ fixed hand count. Get the app from Telegram and read whether this card says 101 or 201 before you Join.
What this play is
Every deal still needs a pure sequence to declare. After each deal, points add to your thermometer. Cross the cap and you stop playing this table. Survivors keep dealing. Rebuy, if the card offers it, is a paid return under rules that panel prints. Players who sit 201 expecting a 101 exit will play twice as long and should not be surprised.
What the table shows
The card prints 101 or 201, seats, entry to the pool, and whether rebuy exists. A score strip shows each name’s running total. Drop values and wrong-declare points add to that strip, not to a one-shot rupee multiply. Read the cap twice. 101 and 201 are the same game with a longer fuse on 201.
How you win this round
Stay under the cap until everyone else has crossed it, or be the lowest remaining when the table’s other end condition prints. Winning is survival plus low deals, not the fastest single declare of the night.
How a round starts
Entry goes into the pool as the card says. Deal one is a normal 13-card hand. After scores, totals update. Deal two starts without reseating unless someone already hit the cap and left. You do not reset to zero after a good declare; you add zero that deal and stay on your old total.
Legal moves — and one that is not
Declare with a valid 13-card layout. Drop to take the printed drop points onto your thermometer instead of a 70-point wreck. On 201, a 40-point middle drop may still leave you in; on 101 the same drop may put you near the door. Rebuy is legal only if the button exists after you bust.
Playing as if one declare wins everyone’s cash like Points is wrong; you only add zero to yourself and points to them. Sitting 201 and leaving at 101 because you “finished pool” is just abandoning chips. Declaring invalid still dumps the printed penalty onto your cap race.
How this round ends
When only one player remains under the cap, that player takes the pool as the card pays. If two remain and one busts, the last under the line wins. The table does not stop at a deal counter unless that extra rule is printed, which is rare on Pool tiles.
How the money is counted
Each deal: winner 0 added, losers add their unmatched points (and drop/wrong-declare costs) to the strip. Example (fiction): you sit 101 Pool at 88, take a 20 first-drop. You post 108 and you are out if the cap is 101. On a 201 table that 108 is still alive. The pool prize is the entries (and rebuye) the card describes, not a per-point rupee line from Points.
If you leave early or miss the tap
Drops and wrong declares accelerate the thermometer. Missed timers can auto-drop. Crossing the cap removes you; you watch or leave. There is no “chip lead after six deals” consolation unless you already won by being last alive.
Buttons on this screen
- Cap — 101 or 201 on the card. That is the out line.
- Score strip — Running totals. Watch yours before you take a risky declare.
- Declare — Adds zero to you, points to others, then the next deal if people remain under cap.
- Drop — Adds drop points to your strip. Count whether that crosses the cap.
- Rebuy — If printed, a paid return after you bust, on that panel’s terms.
How to open it in First Games
- Open the Telegram channel t.me/cocorummy and download the APK posted there. Do not use a random file from search.
- Install on Android and finish mobile OTP.
- Open Rummy, pick Pool, confirm 101 or 201 on the card, then Join.
Do not mix this up with Points Rummy
Points pays a rupee multiply after one deal and closes. Pool adds points to a cap and keeps dealing. A 30-point loss on Points is cash now. The same 30 points on 201 Pool is a dent on a 201 line. Do not sit Pool for a two-minute session. Do not sit Points to “stay under 101.”
One round, start to finish
Farhan sits 101 Pool. Deal one he declares; others take 15–40. His strip stays 0. Deal two he middle-drops; if the panel’s drop is 40 he sits at 40. Deal three someone else declares and he holds a pure plus 22 unmatched: 62 total. Deal four a wreck without a pure could add a capped handful and cross 101. He drops instead if the drop keeps him under. Eventually two bust, one remains under 101, the pool pays that survivor. On a 201 card the same story simply lasts more deals.
How 101 and 201 differ in length
Both use the same 13-card test. 101 is the short pool: one heavy drop plus one bad unmatched count can send you out. 201 is the long pool: you can absorb a middle drop and still have room to declare later. The card tells you which fuse you lit. Do not write 101 strategy onto a 201 seat and linger as if you were already eliminated at 101; you are not. Do not treat 201 as “safer Points”; it is still a cap race, just a taller cap.
Rebuy after you cross the line
Some rooms sell a return when you bust. The price, the score you re-enter on, and whether late rebuy is allowed are on that panel only. If there is no Rebuy button, you are done. Rebuy is not a Points second table; it is a paid extra life inside the same pool. Count whether the remaining seats and prize still justify the extra debit before you tap it.
Which cap should I sit first?
101 if you want a shorter race. 201 if you want more deals to recover. Both are Pool, not Points.
Do my points reset after I declare?
You add zero that deal. Old points stay on the strip.
Is this Deals Rummy?
No. Deals ends after a printed hand count. Pool ends when the cap eliminates everyone else.
Where is the app?
Telegram t.me/cocorummy, then a Pool table.
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