If you have the entire meld (no hole) you can just skip right to the chart and go from there. Queens can sometimes be better for taking tricks than Kings because the Queens themselves aren’t counters, so you’re not giving one away from your hand every time. It really depends on what other cards you have, what you lay down, how many trump you have, and a lot of other factors, so this is just a rough guideline: Here’s a very rough list of approximately how many tricks particular hands can pick. 12 or 13 tricks is about the most you can expect with 80 Kings in your hand, so that adds an additional 120 or 130 points, meaning we can bid 240 or 250, something like that. If we have 120 meld, how much can we bid? In other words, how many tricks can we pick? That’s something you have to get a feel for after playing for a while. With the 80 Kings we would have a total of 120 meld after calling trump (either Spades or Clubs). So in the previous example hand we would just assume we have the 80 Kings. The rule of thumb is to pretend you’ve filled one of the holes (the lowest scoring one) and bid accordingly. The next step is to figure out how much to bid. So really, you’ve got a slightly better than 50/50 shot, since you’ll get those kinds of lucky breaks once in a while. For example, in the above hand, you might catch 10 ♦ Q ♦ to make a run in Diamonds. In addition, you will occasionally get lucky and hit something you weren’t counting on. So this hand has the required three holes, and we can go ahead and bid it, because we know we have a 50/50 shot of hitting it (or a better hole) in the cat. There are in fact three holes: the A ♥ would make 100 Aces, the 10♣ would make a run in Clubs, and the K♠ would make 80 Kings (you usually only look at the substantial melds, such as 60 Queens or higher, and not marriages). I said try to figure it out…don’t just skip to the answer! □ See if you can figure out how many holes the following hand has:Ī♠ A♠ 10♠ 9♠ 9♠ K ♥ 10 ♥ A♣ K♣ Q♣ J♣ A ♦ K ♦ J ♦ 9 ♦ A♠ A♣ A ♥ would be another hole, just needing the A ♦ to complete 100 Aces. If you have A♠ 10♠ K♠ Q♠ you just need the J♠ to make a run, so that’s one hole. A hole is any meld in your hand that is missing one card. The basic bidding strategy revolves around the fact that if you have three “holes” the odds of hitting one in the cat are 50/50. Everyone has slightly different rules of course when we play the game is to 1500 and the person left of the dealer is in (or under) for 200, meaning they have to bid that much to start. The first decision you’ll need to make is what to bid, if anything. Not 4-player, not double deck, not partners, none of that crazy stuff. The most important thing to remember here is that when I talk about “Pinochle” I mean Pinochle. Pinochle is one of the few games where I really feel I’m pretty good at it, so I thought it would be a good subject for my second in-depth look at a game.
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