Learn the Relationship Between the Meld & the Bid in Pinochle

Video Transcript

"We've already revealed the value for meld. We know that we get fifteen points if we have a run in any suit, ace, ten, king, queen, and jack. We might have Pinochles. We might have four points for one Pinochle and fifteen points for two Pinochles. We know that we have points for roundhouses and we have points for arounds, aces around, kings around, queens around, jacks around, and so forth. The relationship of the meld and the bid and the counters is absolutely critical. For example, if we overbid and let's just say that our meld bid count between the two hands is only thirty, and well we bid more than eighty. Well if we have a meld count of say thirty or twenty-nine or thirty and we bid more than eighty we can't make it. It's absolutely impossible. We are set from the get go. I don't care if we whether we had twenty-five, it doesn't matter because if we add fifty counters and thirty meld, that's eighty points and let me tell you something, it is so rare, it is so hard to take all the tricks or all the counters in a hand. That's called a Boston and there's that word again, Boston. We've heard of Boston in Whist, we've heard of Boston in Spades and now we have the term in Pinochle and whether or not that relates to the Pullman train operators and what have you from the 1880's, I don't know, but the name has become synonymous with taking all the counters, not necessarily all the tricks."