All About Passing Cards in Hearts

Video Transcript

"This one will be relatively quick because we touched on this before and we'll touch on it in the next clip or the next segment. Pass options in hearts are left, right, across and keep or hold. Now holding hand means that you don't get to pass anything you have to play what you got. That was added about maybe fifty years ago because it was decided that it did give the newer player or the lesser player, to use that terminology, an opportunity to equalize. So that if they were losing and the better player was served up a hand that had say bad hearts and the queen of spades they'd get slammed with a whole boat load of points and it gives the other player a chance to get into the game; of course it could also end the game too. So passing options left, right, across, and keeper or just left, right, across and no keeper. And one thing that intrigues me is the player game that has all keeper hands, that I think, would be a real challenge. "