THANKS w/a poker face

[Yurij Lotoshko]

trefi  is ald name (read A.Pushkin _Pikovaja dama_)
kresti... - used non prefesioanl players

C. Fields wrote:

> And I've never found 'kresti' in any dictionary--only trefi--but then I
> never heard 'trefi' out of the people with whom I played cards.  Kresti
> was the word of choice among my Vladivostok college age friends.  Could be
> regional, could be age, could be my own particular kompanija (although we did
> play cards with other folks--older--in trains, and I don't remember ever
> hearing trefi out of them).  It may not be the correct word according to some,
> but it is in use, at least among some Far Eastern card players.
> It could be a soda vs. pop preference.  I'd be curious if anyone else has
> heard of 'kresti' and/or if anyone knows where Russian card playing words came
> from.  I know 'hearts' as 'chervy', but I believe there is another term used
> as well.
>
> Emily Fields
>