Card Games That Are As Solid As Armour

I have learned bridge long ago but unfortunately only very rarely had opportunity to play it, so I haven't reached any stage beyond total beginner. (Obviously playing lots of card games makes me a better bridge beginner than most beginners, but still just a beginner.) Reading on "duplicate bridge", this apparently needs a tournament or properly sizeable group, and I don't see myself having that in the near future. Also I wouldn't agree that "card luck is totally excluded" because you're still also scored against people who have different hands, aren't you? The fact that all scores are relative means that there is some standardisation and improved comparability, but still conditions are not the same for everyone, if I understand it correctly. Surely you depend on the way of playing of the opponents on your table compared to other opponents on other tables, although you may not want to call that "card luck". There's probabilities involved, so there's some randomness, no way out of that. Which for me by the way isn't a problem, if anything it's something good. I don't adhere to the philosophy that the best one always should win and shouldn't ever be stopped by fate from winning. Obviously I don't like games in which it doesn't matter much what you do because they're dominated by randomness; there should be a reward for skill at least in percentages, however I think it's more fun to play with players of varying skills (which I usually do as I play with general game lovers, not normally with specialists for any particular game) if a game comes with a fair amount of winning variance.   

you are wrong, Lewian; card luck really is completely excluded. let me explain how.

suppose there is an international tournament with 32 nations competing: Italy, the USA, Germany, France etc. each team has two pairs playing in the tournament. the teams are paired against each other, for example USA vs Italy, Germany vs France etc. the teams play in two different rooms, the so-called "open room" and "closed room".

the 4 seats at the bridge table are named after the four geographic directions. in the open room USA will sit N/S against Italy who sit E/W. in the closed room it is the other way round and so on for all other teams. this means there are 16 tables in the open room and 16 in the closed room.

let's say they play a round with 30 boards. each of these 30 boards is randomly generated and then created 32 times. all teams that sit N/S will get the same cards for each round, and of course E/W too. so all teams will have to play the exact same deals in both directions.

the results of these teams for each board will then be compared and rated (with a complicated system I won't go into).

this means that for playing this first round of 30 boards you need 30 times 32 or 960 decks of cards! for the whole tournament you need tens of thousands of decks of cards because all boards will be prepared in advance.

I hope this makes you understand why there is no card luck at all in bridge

Skat, Tarot, and Barbu go some way, certainly more than Poker and Rummy. Obviously I will not have a chance against expert players, but in a round of beginners I should be quite strong.