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Our members have made a total of 340 posts in 74 threads and we currently have 111 members registered. The first goal has been successful in year one. To promote an upcoming pinochle book teaching a new, advanced bidding system. To build a friendly and helpful community through an online forum.Ģ.

In 2012 we created for any current or potential double-deck pinochle player.

Then whatever happens will happen, but at least when we analyze hands together we will be on the same page with our bidding system. Maybe I'm biased, but I think we can do it. While we are a small community, I think we have some of the sharpest card minds around. I don't mean for us to create a whole new bidding system, but to take the existing general knowledge most players have, and finalize it by making it a little more logical and easier to understand and learn on some of the finer, rarer points. But the NPA counted a run as 25 instead of 15, which changes the whole bidding game (which also probably explains why they were meld first always bidders). The only 'official' bidding system I have ever seen was in the out-of-print book 'Winning Pinochle Strategies' written by Anthony Collins, a National Pinochle Association player (an organization that is now defunct). We will create a page on this website and have the bidding system. We have the opportunity to document an 'official' bidding system. If you are rounding up to 2.5 points per trick to make your in-game math easier, you will be disappointed when your partnership takes 8 tricks without the last trick and still doesn't save (get 20 points) or takes 12 tricks without the last trick (not sure how often this happens) and doesn't shutdown the opponents (get 31 points and keep them from saving their meld). To make life easier, we round up 2.4 points per trick to 2.5 and the list looks like this: The above list does not include extra 2 points received for taking the last trick Here are the point approximations a team will get when they take X number of tricks: However, the more tricks a team takes, the closer their point total will be to averaging 2.4 points per trick. A random trick won during any pinochle game would be made up of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 points. Obviously, it is impossible for one trick to hold 2.4 points. That means sixty percent of the deck is points, so each trick (4 cards) is going to average out to have 2.4 points (60% of 4 = 2.4). Of the 80 pinochle cards in a deck, 48 of them (Aces, Tens, and Kings) are points. If you have any questions or need assistance, let us know in the forums. Coming shortly will be a link on the home page and the forums to the Yahoo Pinochle lobby and a link directly to the Beginner Lounge where we play our Power Pinochle games. If you are only a Pinochle player, please take the time to configure your browser(s) and Java so that you can play pinochle at Yahoo, even if it is only for our Power Pinochle games. We would recommend for the beginning player who is learning to count meld and play the hand, but after those skills are learned, Yahoo Pinochle is a better option because of the realism to a live game, the size of the player pool, and the segregation by skill level (among other things). Otherwise, it does not prepare your mind for a real game where you have to be able to accurately count your meld in a timely manner. also counts meld for you, which is good for a beginner if they use it to practice counting their meld and checking their results. Anyone can sit down at a table and play against bots instead of real people.

Pinochle game online how to#

is a good place for beginners to practice and learn how to play.

The only difference in game rules, play and scoring is that a triple pinochle is worth 60 meld compared to Yahoo's 45 meld. This does not slow things down for the other players, because once you are ejected from your seat, a bot will take your place, until you or another player takes that seat. The problem we have with the timer is that if you do not play a card or bid in time, you are booted from the game (if one of the players at the table doesn't want to wait for you). There is a search feature that allows you to find your friends, and there is no stalling because each player has a timer that counts down when it is their turn to bid or play a card. There are some great things that does for their users. This is going to be a comparison between Yahoo Pinochle (our preferred pinochle playing site) and. Our last Power Pinochle member game was played at, and we had an opportunity to gain some experience using their software.