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                        <title>Passing trump</title>
                        <link>https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/passing-trump-2/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[@Shadow three times during our game you kept a run in trump, two of those times I would have had a double run but was missing one card.  Your 15 points of meld cost us 150 points for a doubl...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[@Shadow three times during our game you kept a run in trump, two of those times I would have had a double run but was missing one card.  Your 15 points of meld cost us 150 points for a double run.   The last time you passed me zero trump and kept a run.   You need to learn how to play!]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Passing smart</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[@Shelby, in our two deck game, I won the bid in spades, yet you didn’t pass the A, K and Q of spades?   Why, for 4 meld points?   I would have had a double run and a double pinochle….

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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[@Shelby, in our two deck game, I won the bid in spades, yet you didn’t pass the A, K and Q of spades?   Why, for 4 meld points?   I would have had a double run and a double pinochle….

I don’t understand, was it your skill level that is lacking?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>I think there is one change we ALL want</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Require minimum of 20 tricks in (dbl deck cutthroat). Otherwise, it is just meld all you can and play two aces. Dbl deck cutthroat is such a great game bc having meld isn&#039;t enough. As of rig...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Require minimum of 20 tricks in (dbl deck cutthroat). Otherwise, it is just meld all you can and play two aces. Dbl deck cutthroat is such a great game bc having meld isn't enough. As of right now, as much as this is easily the best pinochle app, the game is simply a matter of chance, of getting a bunch of meld, playing two aces, and going on auto pilot.

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						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>Boom Wap Pow</dc:creator>
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                        <title>High Bidder passing a trump ace</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi. I&#039;ve noticed something that other players do, and I would like to know why they do it. The high bidder will lead their first trick with a low trump, the opponent to his left plays a king...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi. I've noticed something that other players do, and I would like to know why they do it. The high bidder will lead their first trick with a low trump, the opponent to his left plays a king or ten of trump, and then the low bidder plays an ace of trump and wins the trick.  So the high bidder passed an ace trump to their partner.  Why did the high bidder do that?  Why not keep the ace and play it as the first card on the first trick?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Cutthroat</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Please!? If I&#039;m driving don&#039;t freaking ever pass the lead to me with a noncounter. Why would you think it&#039;s somehow cool to pass the lead to the driver with a jack?? Most of the people playi...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Please!? If I'm driving don't freaking ever pass the lead to me with a noncounter. Why would you think it's somehow cool to pass the lead to the driver with a jack?? Most of the people playing pass with jacks and most of you are wrong]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>Dangokills</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Advice</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Why do players think it&#039;s cool to lead a non counter from the back seat? What I mean by back seat is: when someone takes the bid you then have a&quot;driver&amp; a back seat&quot; the driver is behind...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Why do players think it's cool to lead a non counter from the back seat? What I mean by back seat is: when someone takes the bid you then have a"driver&amp; a back seat" the driver is behind the bidder and the back seat is behind the driver.simple. the #1 job for the back seat is to put the driver in the lead. The drives job is to drive into the bidder. Don't go dumping your aces right away. Let the driver drive the bidder off his 10 s. Or whatever. If you drop all your aces right away from the back seat then the bidder clowns the driver with 10s. Please learn how to drive and most of all learn how to ride pay attention to who is driving!!!


   
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						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>Dangokills</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Advice</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[OMG! I just type almost this whole thing out and towards the end something happened and I lost it all so this is the second time I&#039;m writing this. It looks like some of you have read my last...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[OMG! I just type almost this whole thing out and towards the end something happened and I lost it all so this is the second time I'm writing this. It looks like some of you have read my last post. To that as a good job and well done. Now I want to brush back over some of the last advice and then geive some more. Okay, when you're the rider or backseat and you have a king and a 10 you should play your king into the driver first then play your 10 next that way if the driver only has one ace your 10 will pull an Ace from the bidder. Also when you're in the backseat you play your Queens first that way you can play Jack's into the driver when you get the bidder cutting. If the driver has been playing his jacks first he will have saved his Queens to play over the rider jacks and bitter will get no pointers in the cut. Now that brings me to another subject the most important one: in "options" I have the must beat last card active but for some reason that doesn't work. Let me explain why that is so important: one of the main things that separates pinochle from spades is the fact that you cannot Slough. If you can beat the last card played you must beat it you can't throw a Queen on a king if you have a 10 or Ace. You must beat that King with your 10 or Ace if you can. That gives you the power to force your opponent off the tops of his suits by playing tens at him. If you throw under and you don't have to you're raping the game the program should be set up to force you if you have that active in your options. That gives you the power that makes pinochle such a great game. The ability to force a hand is the power of the game. You might as well be playing spades if you're slughg tricks. One other thing I must say is : people that don't really understand the game will say it's not a partner game but that is BS. It is a partner game every single hand! The driver and the rider are or freaking should be partner's. Every hand of the game. It's the two of you against the poor sap that bid out his or her rear end. It's up to us to punish that fool! I realize I'm that foolish sap often but that's part of the games beauty. It can make you powerful and humble you all at the same time! I have a couple more issues that I'll air out at a later date but if we get this much straightened out the game will be much closer to how it should be. Trust me, I'm a pinochologist.


   
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                        <title>Newby questions</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Is it better to play an ace for a partner&#039;s trick, or to hold onto it in case you get a chance to play it?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Is it better to play an ace for a partner's trick, or to hold onto it in case you get a chance to play it?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://www.pinochle.net/forum/pinochle-strategy/">Pinochle Strategy</category>                        <dc:creator>Clancey</dc:creator>
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