Intro Hey Everyone!

Thanks for the invite. It's much appreciated. I've been a member of Team PSO for four years now, both as a forum moderator and tournament hand analyzer. I played some sort of cards for basically my whole life and enjoy both playing and helping others learn to be better players with poker and pinochle being my best games.

I'm also very good with numbers and do well in a sportsbook, especially with horse race handicapping (my home track is Arlington Park).

Good luck at the tables.

John

 

Good to see you here John

 

i haven't played pinochle since was a teenager, parents was big into playing cards with us kids, learned spades when i was like 8 and then pinochle when i was 10 (couldn't hold my entire hand in my hands lol) went into the military and most just played spades there....

anyways glad to see you here at this forum

 

My dad taught me single deck pinochle at Orchard Beach, NY (Bronx). Two handed, you deal out 12 cards, remaining deck in center of table, one card turned over. You lead into the opponent, whoever takes the hand (high card), wins the opportunity to meld, both draw replacement cards from deck, and so on, until all meld is done, and deck is depleted. Then you play out the remaining cards.

The key is not to use cards you would need to create meld as you go along. It's more tricky to cover here, so if in the neighborhood, let's play.

In Thailand (USAF days), played double deck for 2 and 3 days at a time (during non-operational days of course), at the NCO club (backroom), for (at the time, big money), .2 a point, $1 a set, $5 a game. You see, with family at home, we probably only had $50 a month to spend on everything, so this was our source of income (on the side). Fun stuff, biggest night (2 days), was $273.

We ate like kings at the hooch (barracks), and grilled pork chops from the local market, and French bread, with a Thai dish called Cow-pot (sp), like a fried rice with eggs and so much more. Those were the days.

 

I grew up playing double deck/no 9's. Meld 20, pull 20 Big keys for me in it are knowing when to be aggressive, when to sandbag and being able to count every card shown for meld and every one played is a huge help for formulating strategy. I've never been known to after 5-6 tricks in, just laydown my cards and say.. the rest are mine (and be 100% correct if someone questions it).