Monday, June 26, 2006

Euchre strategy - Hand of the week 1


Well, I’m back from vacation and ready to start writing a bit more about euchre. When I started this blog at the beginning of the year I really didn’t think about how long I could make it last or more importantly, how much material I had. But if thousands of blogs about poker can be kept, couldn’t one blog about euchre be kept up? Well, I’ll keep trying.

Perhaps the format that I was following was too restrictive. Today, something new.

I’m going to deal out a random hand. And talk about how to play it.

Here’s the hand of the week…

K (Hearts)
10 (Diamonds)
J (Clubs)
J 10 (Spades)

Upcard is…

Q (Diamonds)

Questions to consider.
  1. How should this hand be ordered?

  2. How should this hand be played?

Tomorrow, we’ll talk about the answers.

2 comments:

Kevin said...

Hmm...if the Queen were ordered up by anyone, I'd advise flipping the table and freaking out. Seems like you have a terrible hand.

In the case of the dealer, I suppose get rid of the Jack of Clubs and hope you can cut on a trick, and pray that your partner has something.

Perry said...

Yeah, it is a really bad hand if a red suit is trump