How to Bid a Loner in Euchre

Video Transcript

"Bidding loners. You know, I know players that will not bid a loner unless they have something like this. That's not too hard. That's called the perfect hand. Left, right, ace, king, queen. They figure that's a pretty sure-fire loner. But that's a little bit of an extreme example. Then there's those who, maybe if the spades were the trump, they might be afraid of the loner because well, gosh, what happens if the left doesn't drop? What happens if this? Well, here you have a two-suited hand, and you have four trump. Rather magnificent trump. You don't really have anything to lose. Do you honestly expect that your partner is going to have both the left and the ace of hearts? This is worth a good try. This is an off-suit king. The left may fall, you run these three, and then you take the king of hearts. Again, there's some people who may want to go for the two points. I like the idea of investing the extra point to go for the four points. So, this is not a borderline hand. This is a solid hand and it's a good loner call; it's a speculative loner call, but it's a good loner call. Now, if we look at a hand that has something like this."