Learn the Doubling Strategy in Barbu

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Doubling is a part of the game particularly played at the advanced level, the intermediate to advanced level. When you become an accomplished Barbu player or you have the good fortune maybe to go to a Bridge tournament and they're offering Barbu. And again they play it at a lot of the Bridge tournaments. They play it at some of the Cribbage tournaments I know. Uh, there's a retirement community in Florida where it's a tremendously popular, several, not just one retirement community. My friends in Mexico play it and uh in Atlanta. And they just love the game. And it's a game that's so addictive. So, if you play Barbu, you might even give up um, Spades. Although that would be heresy because I like Spades too. Um, I like Hearts as well. So, doubling. When to double, when not to double. Well if you're forced to call Queens and you've got two Queens in your hand, you've just got a bad hand. You don't double. However if the opponent thinks that um, they can force you to take Queens and they have a completely safe hand. They may double you. What does that mean? You get double the penalties. If you take two Queens, instead of getting um, twenty-four points you'd get, you know you'd get double. I mean instead of getting twelve points you get twenty-four points. Now the double can backfire. Suppose and then I doubled you and you didn't take any points and I took three Queens. Well I'm rousted out for thirty-six points. So the double's a two sided weapon. You double somebody, it's basically like in Bridge. When somebody doubles in Bridge it goes one Heart, one Heart, one no trump, four Hearts, pass, pass, pass and I say to the opponent, double. Well if we set them, we get the premium for the points in Bridge. If we don't, then they get premium for making their hand plus all the doubled points. Same thing in Barbu. Doubling is a strategic weapon in which you're confident the person who's been forced to declare a hand uh, is going to get set. Somebody calls King of Hearts. They feel uncomfortable about it. If you double them and they take the King of Hearts, they get sixty points. If they throw it on you, you get sixty points. So, you really might want to think about that. There are no doubles in Last Two. And there are no doubles in the um, in the zero tricks game Nullows. Use the double wisely and definitely research it. It can blow up on you.

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