Posted on 03/12/2017 8:01:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Playing cards with your girlfriend and ex-wife at the same time? Sounds a bit too civilized.
First time I ever played my ex-GF poker, she dealt me 4 kings. We didn’t play much poker after that, but she beat the cr@p out of me at spite and malice.
played double deck but never “contract” double deck.
I dated her right after you then! :)
Grandpa John would give you 750 melt for that hand
See what I mean? Meld points seem to be a matter of regional opinion when it comes to Pinochle and nobody is going to agree. Still a game winning hand, though.
I’m more amazed that you’re playing cards with a girlfriend AND an ex-wife!
Grandpa John was from the Polish region
Don’t know pinochle, but how do you get 3 identical aces with only two decks in a double-deck game?
She must have taught my ex to play that game.
Pinochle deck has 48 cards...9 through Ace for two sets of each suit. Now double that for double deck of 96 cards.
Pinochle starts out as a weird game. Single deck pinochle is played with a deck of 48 cards consisting of two sets every card from the nine through the Ace in all four suits. Thus there would be two nines of spades, two tens of spades, two jacks of spades, two queens, two kings, and two Aces. Repeat for hearts, diamonds and clubs. Now, it gets gets a bit weirder. The order of priority of the cards from highest to lowest is Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Jack, Nine.
When you play double-deck Pinochle, you toss out the nines. That way when you deal them you will be able to handle the resulting cards in your hand without too many cards. When four people play, each player gets 20 card's dealt to them. If the nines were still in the deck, 24 would be more to handle and it get's awkward. The nines slow down the play, so most people toss them. Double-deck is played with 80 cards, instead of 96, with four Aces, Tens, Kings, Queens, Jacks in each suit.
in double-deck Pinochle, it's customary to banish the plebeian nines and play with only 80 cards. Simplifies things and speeds up the play.
We usta keep the dices.
Musta been Brooklyn rules...LOL
Another rule we had was that signals (cheating) ABOVE the table were OK...,.if you could get away with them.
Below the table was another matter entirely.
Great fun.
Played cutthroat with a friend who might have had a hand like that when he came back from the rest room... he picked up his cards and incredulously said we must have set up the cards... my other friend and I, simultaneously threw in the hand saying there was no fooling him, that he was on to us... we never found out what he had... but we were sure we didn’t want to play it...
Played cutthroat with a friend who might have had a hand like that when he came back from the rest room... he picked up his cards and incredulously said we must have set up the cards... my other friend and I, simultaneously threw in the hand saying there was no fooling him, that he was on to us... we never found out what he had... but we were sure we didn’t want to play it...
I was playing in a poker room last week and got only my fifth Royal Flush ever. Two hands later I got quads. Unfortunately it was in a tournament so I didn’t get the $650 jackpot for the royal I would have in a cash game.
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