How to Play Strait Whist : Use Your Partner’s Bidding to Your Advantage
And takes them all and get seven. I mean that’s an incredible advantage in the game. So use your partners bidding to your advantage. So if you have a good strong hand and, this is a bit of an exaggeration. This is a very powerful hand so obviously if it’s going to be my bid…
How to Play Double Deck Pinochle : Understand the Bids of Pinochle
There are only and this is another thing that I’ll show you the correlation between the bidding and the counting. There are only fifty counter cards, fifty cards in the deck that are, I’m sorry. Forty eight cards in the deck that earn you points during the play of the hand. They are aces, kings…
How to Play Bid Whist : Understand the Minimum Bid of Four in Whist
In the game of Strait Whist, Kitty, Bid, Jokers what have you. You have to bid four. It is a requirement. It is a standard rule. There maybe some variations. You might play in a local game. Make sure you know the rules. In a nutshell, you have to start a bid of four. Dealer…
How to Play Double Deck Pinochle : How to Bid Beyond the 60 Level in Pinochle
So in order to bid beyond the sixty level you need to have an awful lot of meld to support you because even if you stopped at sixty and you only had twenty meld you have to take forty counters so there is a relationship and here’s a score sheet and I’ll just show you…
How to Play Bid Whist : Discarding to the Kitty in Whist
You’ve competing in the auction. Let’s just say your partner is bid four uptown. You’re encouraged by that. He goes to five and you’re faced with this decision. He goes to five downtown, four uptown, five downtown, obviously if you’ve got the high cards, are you going to push this to six? Well, your partner…
How to Play Bid Whist : Learn the Play of the Hand in Whist
We’ll keep the other example. What is the plan here? We plan to knock out the trump, knock out the high cards. Hopefully find partner with a winner in diamonds. I’m just using this as an illustrative hand. We could add clubs and spades to this. If you happen to have less diamonds and maybe…
Play Pinochle Like a Professional : Bids of 52 in Pinochle
O’kay continuing on talking about bidding and again I can’t emphasize enough that bidding is the most important part of the game. It is the most important part of the game in so many games besides Pinochle but if you make the wrong bid and you get into the wrong contract you are often going…
How to Play Bid Whist : Learn the History of Bid Whist
Bid Whist with kitty and jokers. The rules of Bid Whist of course go back to the original game of Whist that was created in the late sixteen hundreds, early seventeen hundreds and written extensively by Edmond Hoyle, James Clay and others. James Clay was a card game writer from the eighteen hundreds and he…
Play Pinochle Like a Professional : Opening Bids in Pinochle
Now we’ve touched on this in the previous section and we’re just going to keep looking at the opening bid with aces all around. If you have the opening bid to the left of the dealer or if it goes past and you are the partner of the dealer, it doesn’t really matter, the point…
Play Pinochle Like a Professional : Determine the Right Bidding System for You in Pinochle
If you choose to bid 52 at opening seat, again this is one system, people can use whatever system they want, that promises 20 meld. That’s a 20 meld bid. If you open 53 you are showing 30 meld. What would 30 meld be? Well you’ve got 15 in runs here, you’ve got 10 for…