My new daughter in law in training (DILIT) and Mrs Cad are at 147 with their opponents in the 60s. Just pass the bidding, meld and take a trick right? DILIT takes the contract at 31. She melded a pinochle and a 9 then got pissed when Mrs Cad only had a 9 of trump to meld. Needless to say they went down in flames. Later DILIT claimed she didn’t want to back into a victory and felt you should win the contract to win the game.
Clearly you have to put an end to that relationship. If that marriage goes through your life will be filled with grief.
First you seem to think that the rules of pinochle are fixed. When I played, each hand was a match and you paid off at the end. I infer that you were playing a match to 150 (or 1500 in the full count) and they had 147. I further infer that you were playing 4-handed (there are also 3- and 2-handed versions) since there were partners. When I played 4-handed, there was no widow and minimum bid was 25, which was also the bid that dealer was forced to make after three passes. So a bid of 31 would have been reached after a couple competitive rounds.
At any rate, bidding 31 with only 5 meld is indeed idiotic. Not even a marriage in trumps? I would want a flush in hand to bid 31.
That’s what I keep saying. I’m waiting for when my son is 18 and I can kick him out. He’ll do stuff like pass me a ten when I take the contract and keep an Ace or he’ll pass back trump when he takes the contract all because he “has a plan”. What is your plan? Being retarded?
Those are the rules we play by too. But I don’t care what rules you play by, bidding with only needing 3 points to win unless you have the meld already in you hand is idiocy.
She also refuses to lead out A of trump. The classic was when she knew there was an AofT out so she lead out with a queen. I had to play my ace to take it - which was the only trump in my hand.
They say that pinochle is the number one cause of conflict in relationships.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
I saw the fights at friends’ houses over pinochle and hearts when I was a kid. Never bothered to learn either.
One memorable game of pinochle was a microcosm of my family. Me and Grandma against my parents. Now my mom was an excellent card player. Pop is kind of a jerk, esp when his mom gets on his nerves. Pop challenged Mom one too many times about what cards she had (jerk). Mom threw her cards down in disgust (finally had enough) and Grandma set about collecting everything quietly and cleaning up (stoic German who avoided all conflict and whose floor you could eat off). I was Switzerland.
I used to love playing double deck (no nines, for the uninitiated). I learned the game in Vietnam, along with euchre and canasta. They were great for passing the time at night. Pinochle is hilarious, as it seems to invariably be played using signals, and sometimes people go to great lengths to create secret signs to tell their partner what they have. But man, do folks get obsessed with it.
My son was my partner last night and did this. I was so pissed because my stepson took his K with the only trump he had in his hand - the ACE! He could have run his ATT in trump and taken them all. :mad:
FWIW, one of the variants I played as a kid was that you had to take the bid to win. So even if you went over on a hand that you didn’t bid, you had to keep playing until you made a bid, or until the other team went into the hole (to prevent them just continuously taking every bid to keep you from winning). But this was always announced & agreed to before the game started.
And it turns out there are tons of rules variations in pinochle. When I went to college, I found 3 other guys in my fraternity also played pinochle, so we tried playing one night. By the second hand, it was obvious that each one of us was playing a slightly different game, and by the 4th hand every attempt to merge rules had ended in failure. We ended up throwing the deck out the window and playing beer pong instead.
ETA: But yes, even if she thought you were playing the “bidder out” rule, bidding 31 with 5 meld is insanity.
An old friend told me a story about one fateful Thanksgiving where his family got into a fight over pinochle that ended up with his father feeding the turkey down the garbage disposal.
Not knowing anything about pinochle, I never quite believed it. Now I see that it was par for the course.
No she didn’t think we were playing bidder out rule. She’s just an idiot and later came up with the “didn’t want to back into a victory” excuse.
Four things never to discuss in company: religion, politics, the Great Pumpkin, and pinochle.
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DIL is my partner and I call spades as trump. Last card passed is a 9 of diamonds. OK if you have absolutely nothing else to pass then that’s probably the best card. During the hand she plays the Ace of Hearts and after the hand I asked her why she passed the 9d instead of Ah. Her reply was, “I thought you would want to void yourself in hearts.”
I just hope the NSA is monitoring this thread, because it’s obviously written in some sort of super spy code.
What is this passing? Obviously a variant I never played. If you think pinochle players are obsessed, you have obviously never played bridge. Once I learned bridge, I stopped playing pinochle.
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I’ve been playing pinochle for over 30 years. Came so close to getting a double run numerous times but never got one. WOULD have had one but the wife fucking forgot to fuckin pass the fuckin queen of fuckin clubs.
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