#Pinochle game ok how to#

With 3 or 4 people, players can play solo. With 4, 6, and 8 people, players are divided into teams of 2. Pinochle can be played with 3, 4, 6, or 8 players. It was typical PlayOK bidding.part clueless, part dare, mostly stupid.Pinochle is a trick taking and melding game where teams of players try to be the first pair to win 1500 points. Would I blame the opponents for muttering about cheating? NO. Of course we pull 36 in the end because everything's working almost perfectly. OK, I can have a fair bit and still pass, but really? He doesn't have tricks.3 side aces and probably only 3 trump tricks, with that suit. But my partner has *less* shape and *less* texture.he still bid 75. I've only got 7 tricks, no texture, and no shape. I don't like 75 there when we've only got 45 meld. Get real it's not going to happen very often. He needs me to kick in 12-16 more than I've shown. I show 30 he's got 6, and on a GOOD day, 9 tricks (6 trump, 2 diamonds, 1 spade). By the same token, I believe it was the same game where I gave partner 30 meld, and my net contribution was 40. My partner grossly overbid twice.hit me with a run in his poor trump suit, and he needed it all, and caught me with a big, passed hand on another. Had a game in the last few days that could *easily* be read as cheating, but it's PlayOK bidding. Unless something's seriously egregious, I want to see a recurring pattern, not just a single incident.ĮDIT: argh, can't find it. Then you have to consider the wildly erratic bidding and play. As for leads.sometimes that holds, but often what might look like cheating, has a solid basis behind it. People can be rude, but players from the same IP are also flagged now. And even with these warts, PlayOK still seems better than anywhere else I know of right now. Hopefully when the ratings spread more, some of the issues with terrible players and their often equally terrible attitudes will disappear. Unfortunately, tho, for right now it's the best site I know of. AND, it would help maybe set up one room (there are 7 or 8, but you automatically get dumped into the first non-full one) for the higher-rated players. This is both good and bad social/beginner rooms on Yahoo often got totally trashy, but noting those who did heavy trash talking, helped identify the morons to avoid. PlayOK also has no chat capability in the lounge. EVERY card played by us was an easy, easy play to a thinking player, but East wasn't one of those. And at that point, East was convinced we were cheating. The first is nice, the second is awesome. BUT.maybe it goes Q, K, T, to my partner's ace.or Q, K, J to my partner's 10. If West wins this trump trick.I'll find out the heart position (mostly). I *am* worried about hearts East could have them. I can let West cash 1 diamond ace, probably. I sat South withĪt trick 1, East cashed nothing interesting showed. So *expect* accusations of cheating all the time, if you actually make a tactical play that works.

#Pinochle game ok how to#

Bad players *KNOW* how to play.they read Pinochle for Dummies and it's their bible. Here, so far, I'd say almost everyone is at social/beginner level I'm seeing so, so many basic mistakes.holding all remaining aces, and some 10s.but playing the ace.playing a suit where you hold ALL the remaining aces.pass-50-51, the absolutely worst bid you can make IMO.it goes on and on.Īnd the attitude is pretty much equally bad. Or perhaps it's the fact that there's classification to the rooms. OK, I'll be the first to tell you: ratings mean very little. Everyone starts at 1200 the ratings spread in the one room with a decent number of players, is from 1555 down to 1043. Yahoo had social/beginner/intermediate/advanced rooms that doesn't exist here. Standard of play: miserably low, BUT the problem may be that there hasn't been enough time/play to really get a player spread. If you're at all a slower player.you prefer to take your time counting meld, for instance.pay attention to the time setting before you start a game. They play without thought so they want to force their opponents to do the same. To me, as well, people setting tables that short, are much more likely to be.bad players. Even a 10 minute table is problematic if the game runs on for quite a few hands. I won't play on a 7 minute table there's NO time for any consideration. That's for you to make every bid and every play. Longest I've seen is 30 minutes (per hand) shortest has been 7 minutes. The length is set when the table is created, and this is something to be wary of. They have a timer on everyone ALL the time. PlayOK at least keeps the overall play environment clean and simple. Everywhere else I've tried, has tons of issues. Not a large fee, to be sure, but still a fee. Well, at this point we have no reason to believe that Yahoo is ever going to revert to a play-for-free model they're directing us to a site where there's a fee to play.