Understanding Percentages & Hand Strength in Euchre

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This is pretty easy to work with. Firstly, there are three cards that are not in play. These never get into play. These are the mystery cards. Three out of twenty-four, I think that's one eighth or twelve point five percent. There are very few card games that have cards out of play or in a kitty. I mean, a lot of games the cards are temporarily in the kitty and somebody bids for the kitty and they take it in to hold in their hand. So you have three cards out of the game. So you don't know what they are, but they certainly impact the distribution of hands. Sometimes you think, oh my god this is hopeless I'm going to lose to the right and lo and behold the right is in the kitty. So sometimes you get lucky and there is a certain amount of luck in this game. Perhaps a little higher than other games, but there is still a great skill factor in working with partners who understand the meaning of how to cross trump hands and do that sort of thing. So if we turn a heart, normally, and this actually holds up pretty well, you're going to find each hand and I mentioned this before, each hand will usually have one trump and there will probably be a trump in the kitty. Well, let's see if this holds up. We've got two trump here, one trump here, zero trump here, but we happen to have two trump in here if it turns out hearts are going to be named trump, and of course one trump in the kitty so this one happens to have two. So it's two, two, one, and unfortunately he didn't have any, but normally you expect each person to have a trump. These could have been easily divided this way as well. Secondly, when this card, again this is good exercise in bidding when you have this card turned it goes pass because he can't order, pass, that's a good card for him to have, but not enough to order, pass. He's thrilled to take this into his hand and get rid of this and without even having to worry about this, this hand is very, very tempting hand to even call a loner on, very tempting, a lot of people would do it because it has an off suit ace and an off suit king, the odds favor making them all, partner happens to have the right, it's a fifty -fifty proposition. The right could have been in the kitty or in partner's hand or in either one of these hands. So its fifty percent possibility of making a loner, but you also needed help on here. He chose to go to make all the points is what he did. Again, I'll have players argue with me saying oh I'd call a Lone. Well, then you would have lost the king of diamonds. So it all depends on your approach to the game. Aggressive players will call this a lone all the time. So that's a little thing about percentages, plays in the hand, remember three cards out of the game changes the dynamics of the hand.

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