Understand How the Bid & Auction Affect Each Other in Pinochle

Video Transcript

"Because unless you have killer meld, double runs, that sort of thing, you cannot go alone in this game unless you have the cards to support it. My partner couldn't even cough up for example aces all around which is a traditional fifty-one bid. He passed. He's warning me. I've got nothing. On the other hand, if it goes fifty and my partner jumps to say fifty-three, traditionally that might be promising me thirty meld. See the number three and these we're going to cover these private agreements later. So when you talk about more on the bidding, the auction continues until the high man has taken the bid and whoever's left in the game usually the partner or one of the opponents, for example, fifty, pass, he's out, fifty-two, pass, fifty-four, auction's still open because he has a bid, he has an option to bid, fifty-six, pass, now we've closed the loop because we've had a pass here, a pass here, and a pass here so that's another thing to consider. The last bidder followed by the pass. Now you might have a battle between an opponent and your partner, fifty-three, fifty-four, pass, pass, let's say I have nothing, let's say I didn't have this run, I didn't have any strength, I got a middle hand loaded with queens and jacks and that's not going to get me a whole lot so, but not enough maybe to have jacks all around or queens all around so it's fifty, fifty-three, pass, pass, fifty-five, fifty-seven, now we have a battle with these two, it doesn't matter. The auction is still open. Fifty-seven, pass, that's it, done because we've already had pass and pass and once you keep that in mind the life gets to be a lot easier."