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re: Help settle an arguement on Card game Pedro (cut throat is dumb)
Posted on 5/2/14 at 10:18 am to Nado Jenkins83
Posted on 5/2/14 at 10:18 am to Nado Jenkins83
I honestly haven't played in years, but growing up, we'd visit my grandparents every Sunday. We played the entire time we visited. If you didn't play correctly, you got yelled at by your grandparents 
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Posted on 5/2/14 at 10:18 am to GeauxColonels
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no other option than the cover at all times
So you always assume the guy after you has a pedro? That could result in you burning trump and end up losing points for your team. You have to pay attention to how many cards everyone drew, who bid, what's being played, and make an educated guess as to whether you cover or not.
If you're following suit, there is no strategy or choice. If they throw an off club, you're throwing an off club if you have one.
One thing is not arguable - it completely changes the dynamic of the game.
I for one much prefer cutthroat.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 10:34 am to Casty McBoozer
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So you always assume the guy after you has a pedro? That could result in you burning trump and end up losing points for your team. You have to pay attention to how many cards everyone drew, who bid, what's being played, and make an educated guess as to whether you cover or not. If you're following suit, there is no strategy or choice. If they throw an off club, you're throwing an off club if you have one
with cutthroat you can just throw down a pedro though. i feel like that takes away some strategy. makes it easier to throw down and steal a pedro.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:02 am to Casty McBoozer
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You have to pay attention to how many cards everyone drew, who bid, what's being played, and make an educated guess as to whether you cover or not. If you're following suit, there is no strategy or choice.
You still have to make those decisions and pay attention to all of that in follow suit games too. It sounds like you're making a generalization that, in follow suit games, everyone has the same off suits every hand so no thinking is involved. In reality, its pretty common for someone to not have the same off suit that is first played. And, in the instances everyone does have the same off suit as the first play, odds that everyone has the same off suit again for the second play are extremely low. So counting cards is extremely important in follow suit games too.
Learning when to lead low trump or off suit as the dealer, when to trump back at your partner after taking lead or throw off suit, counting cards during deal, covering for pedros, etc... are all strategies that you must know if you expect to be any good in a follow suit game.
Just because you know the rules and point cards doesn't mean you're any good (that goes for both cut throat and follow suit games). There is definitely a lot deeper strategy in pedro than just knowing the rules. That's the reason why a simple question about the game can turn into a multiple page thread
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 11:06 am
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:05 am to GeauxColonels
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There sure are a lot more of us HHS folk on here than I realized
C/O 2000. Many games of Pedro were played during A* days and band bus trips.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:11 am to Nado Jenkins83
Wow... I miss that game! Since I left college, haven't played a single hand. My GPA might have been better if I hadn't discovered it!
Oh, who am I kidding, it wouldn't have been any better...
Oh, who am I kidding, it wouldn't have been any better...
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:13 am to elprez00
A* days were boss. If you had 2nd lunch
I have a A* day sign still.
I have a A* day sign still.
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 11:14 am
Posted on 5/12/14 at 2:03 pm to Nado Jenkins83
I have a few follow suit questions.
1. If a person throws an off card and I do not have the same suit do I have to throw a trump or can I throw anything in my hand?
2. On an off round can I cover if I am the third person to throw or do I have to follow suit (if i have the card)?
3. Why do Lafourche people cry about cut throat even when they are in the lovely Terrebonne parish. Play by the house rules.
1. If a person throws an off card and I do not have the same suit do I have to throw a trump or can I throw anything in my hand?
2. On an off round can I cover if I am the third person to throw or do I have to follow suit (if i have the card)?
3. Why do Lafourche people cry about cut throat even when they are in the lovely Terrebonne parish. Play by the house rules.
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