Learn About the King of Hearts in Barbu

Video Transcript

"Okay, the hearts king is, as we discussed before, is like a super sized queen of spades, in the game of hearts that is. Okay, you definitely do not want to call a hearts king if you have a short handed hearts suite with a king, like king once, king twice. Or comparable to hearts, the game of hearts, you do not hold the queen of spades in your hand if you only have one or two little spades with her or even three little spades. So in this case, you are not passing cards but you obviously want to avoid calling heart king unless you have the heart king long and strong. Now keep in mind that the game that is undoubled, the person with hearts can not lead the heart suite until the hearts have been broken, not until they are broken but until they are heart tight. So keep that in mind to that the king of heart option does give you a little bit of space but do not call king of hearts if you have the king of hearts in your hand that is short handed. Or a tremendous of high number of high cards that will not let you off the lead later on and you are trapped in the hand and you have to wind up leading the king of hearts. So, although we do not really need an illustrative hand for this, if you have a king of hearts lots of hearts with it low cards, call king of hearts. If you have high cards and short handed king of hearts, do not even think about it. And also be familiar with the doubling option."