Learn About Nullos in Barbu

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Hi, we'll start the intermediate- advanced section of Barbu, king of hearts by discussing each of the levels in a little bit more detail. And, we start out with the level called nellows. This is a, this is a choice that you have to make and you want to make it when you have a hand that is, has quite a few low cards and you don't expect winning a lot of tricks. Now, we have a couple of illustrative examples here, we can pan down on this hand, o.k. This is a borderline hand that's really not ideal for nellows, because we're looking at a bad clubs suit that's probably going to soak out three tricks. You can rest assured that good opponent is going to let you hold that queen of hearts for a fourth trick. You've got ace, king of spades here, you've got ace of diamonds, you just have an awful lot, even though you've got some nice low cards to get off lead, unfortunately you're going to be saddled with probably six or seven tricks here. So, this might be a good throw away hand, if you needed to, I mean you wouldn't call queens on this, you wouldn't call, you know, king of hearts on this for example, but I would not call a hand like this nellow, it's just too many tricks. But, if we want to look at exhibit B:

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