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we got any pedro players up in here?
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:51 am
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:51 am
for those that don't know, it's a card game similar to spades, but much more fun... kinda local to Terrebonne/Lafourche...
i really want to get a tournament or something set up around here in Dutchtown/Prairieville/Baton Rouge... but dunno how many around here know how to play or would be interested...
i really want to get a tournament or something set up around here in Dutchtown/Prairieville/Baton Rouge... but dunno how many around here know how to play or would be interested...
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:53 am to chRxis
Ohhhhhh thought you said pedo
Never mind
Never mind
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:53 am to chRxis
That sounds awesome.
Me and most of my college buddies all play at least once a week here at LSU.
(from Lafourche lol)
Me and most of my college buddies all play at least once a week here at LSU.
(from Lafourche lol)
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:57 am to chRxis
Haven't played in years. Used to be a blast.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:59 am to chRxis
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.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 10:59 am to chRxis
The real question is if you play Follow suit or Cut-Throat?
This post was edited on 8/6/16 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:01 am to BlackAdam
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that bs Nicholls State follow suit crap
I've always understood that Houma plays cut-throat and Thib plays follow suit.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:02 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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...
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:03 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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I've always understood that Houma plays cut-throat and Thib plays follow suit.
exactly... Lafourche (where i'm from) plays follow suit... Terrebonne plays cut throat, which is bullshite...
if i were to set up a game/tournament, it'd be follow suit... none of that cut throat shite allowed...
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:04 am to chRxis
There's actually a way to play 3-man Pedro.
Quite fun too.
I can explain in detail if you want.
Quite fun too.
I can explain in detail if you want.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:05 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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There's actually a way to play 3-man Pedro.
Quite fun too.
i know how, but i don't think it's nearly as fun as regular pedro... and tbh, i like the meeting people and shite... that's always fun too
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:05 am to BlackAdam
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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.
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.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:07 am to chRxis
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if i were to set up a game/tournament, it'd be follow suit... none of that cut throat shite allowed...
This would be like setting up a flag football tournament. I'll stick with the real man version - cut throat.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:10 am to gizmoflak
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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.
Pedro Rules - "Cinch"
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:11 am to slackster
I'll play either way, but I grew up playing follow suit so if I had to choose one it be that way.
But it really doesn't make that big of a difference to me in all honesty.
But it really doesn't make that big of a difference to me in all honesty.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:13 am to slackster
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The highest possible bid is 14
So no 14-28 bid?
Or 28-56?
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:13 am to chRxis
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Terrebonne plays cut throat, which is bullshite...
Cut throat is the only way to play. Follow suit is fricking stupid. There is literally no good reason to play that way. Give me one, I'll wait
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:14 am to gizmoflak
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...
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...
This post was edited on 8/6/16 at 11:17 am
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:15 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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So no 14-28 bid?
Or 28-56?
Yeah but that was the first rule result from Wikipedia, and outside of 14-28, 28-56, and the dealer being forced to bid 6 or 7, it does a pretty good job explaining the rules IMO.
We always played force bid 7 fwiw.
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