we got any pedro players up in here?

Ohhhhhh thought you said pedo

Never mind

Haven't played in years. Used to be a blast.

The real question is if you play Follow suit or Cut-Throat?

i'm about to teach a couple of guys i'm associated with here... i only know of myself (lafourche), my next door neighbor (terrebonne), and a guy a grew up with that moved up here (lafourche) that know how to play... i need a 4th so i can do like Friday night games at my house or something...

There's actually a way to play 3-man Pedro.
Quite fun too.

I can explain in detail if you want.

rules?

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I play, but only the right way. If you play that bs Nicholls State follow suit crap it is because you are too stupid to understand strategy.

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It's not a Nicholls thing, it is a Terrebonne vs. Lafourche thing. I forget which is which, but cut throat is the only way to play.

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rules?

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The following rules are based on Foster's Complete Hoyle of 1897 and are very similar to the modern Bicycle rules.

Card values (trumps only)
Rank A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 Off-5 4 3 2
Value 1 — 1 1 — 5 5 — 1
The game is played with a standard pack of 52 cards. The cards are ranked in the usual order, from Aces, Kings, Queens etc. down to Twos. As a special case, the Off-Pedro, i.e. the non-trump Five which is of the same color as trumps, is for all purposes considered to be a member of the trump suit ranking between the Pedro (Five of trumps) and the Four of trumps.

Like Pitch, Cinch is a point-trick game, i.e. for winning the trick play one needs to maximize the total value of the cards won in tricks, rather than the number of tricks won. But in Cinch (and in Pedro in general) the original card-points were abolished in favor of directly assigning game points to the cards. As a result of this process, only six of the fourteen trumps carry card-values, while the plain suit cards do not score at all.

The first dealer is decided by cutting.[6] The dealer shuffles the pack, and the player to the dealer's right cuts. Nine cards are dealt to each player in batches of three.

Beginning with the eldest hand, each player gets one chance to bid for the privilege of declaring the trump suit. A bid is the number of points that the bidder's party undertakes to win in the deal, the minimum bid being 1 or in some variations, 6. Each player must make a higher bid than any previous player, or pass. The highest possible bid is 14.[7][8]

When the highest bidder has announced the trump suit, starting with eldest hand each player in turn discards at least three cards face up. The dealer fills each player's hand up to six cards. In the four-player partnership version the dealer's own hand is filled up by robbing the pack: The dealer chooses the cards freely from the remaining stock, and if any trumps remain in the stock discards them openly.

Any scoring trumps discarded by the opponents are counted for the highest bidder's party.

The highest bidder leads to the first trick and need not lead a trump. The standard rules for card play in trick-taking games hold, with one exception: It is always allowed to trump instead of following suit. ("Follow suit or trump.") As usual, the highest card of the suit led wins each trick, unless a trump is played, in which case the highest trump played wins. The winner of a trick leads to the next trick.

Both parties count the card-points in their tricks. If the bidding party keeps the contract, i.e. wins the required number of card-points, the party that won more card-points scores the difference. Otherwise the opponents score their own result plus the value of the bid.

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Pedro Rules - "Cinch"

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The highest possible bid is 14

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So no 14-28 bid?
Or 28-56?

2 teams of 2 players compete by bidding on how many points they think they can make given an initial round of 9 cards... once the bidding is done, a suit is named, and you are re-dealt cards till you end up with 6 to actually play the round... bidding starts at 7, unless "forced" to bid, as the dealer, when no other players bid, in which you automatically are forced to bid 6...

the point cards are: Ace (1), Jack (1), 10 (1), 5's, of the color of the suit named (5), and 2 (1)... what i mean by 5's of the color of the suit named is i.e. if i bid 7 and select spades as the suit i'm bidding in, then the 5 of clubs becomes a "trump" card, and is worth 5 points just like the 5 of spades... all other cards in the deck, other than the suit named during bidding, are not worth anything, regardless of hierarchy...

first to 56 points wins.... however, when bidding, if you fail to get the amount of points you bid, you go back that many points...

there are many basic strategies and much more complex strategies that you figure out with experience... overall, it's the most fun card game i've ever played, with strip poker coming in a distant 2nd...