Welcome to my Blog. I am running a more comprehensive website about Euchre that fully covers Euchre Strategy and has thorough Euchre Definitions and an explanation of Euchre Rules, but I wanted to create this blog to further get the word out.
My first entry in this blog will be about some situational Euchre strategy.
Generally speaking, a basic Euchre Rule is to never trump your partner's ace. This means that if your partner is winning the trick with an ace (note that this is only applicable to off suit aces) it is inappropriate and ill-advised to use one of your trump cards to take the trick away from your partner.
General Euchre Rule: it is okay to Trump your partner's trick if she is winning with a King or lower, but it is not okay to Trump your partner's trick if she is winning with an Ace. This is true even if you are sluffing an off suit Ace of your own.
The basic idea is that your partner is going to win the trick anyway so there is no reason to waste one of your good cards for little to no gain. Not to mention you stand the risk of being over-trumped by your opponent, therein wasting your trump completely.
However, with every rule comes a number of exceptions and I'd like to discuss a few of them here.
(1) If you have nothing but trump left in your hand, quite obviously you will have not choice but to trump your partner's trick
(2) If you want the lead. If you have a lot of trump and want to bleed out trump of your opponents it is sometimes acceptable to trump your partners ace so you can come back with a lead of a strong trump card. This is particularly applicable if you called Trump.
If your partner leads an offsuit Ace and your alternative is sluffing an Ace or throwing a low trump, it will be better for you to take the trick, come back with a lead of a strong trump, and hope to bleed out all of the trump of your opponents so you can take all the tricks.
You stand a chance of being overtrumped on the subsequent hand (especially if your partner comes back with the same suit they just played) so it can be wise to trump your partner and take the lead.
This is less applicable if you have the last play (i.e. the other team leads into your partner's ace) as you do not have to worry about getting over trumped. The only concern then is whether you want the lead.
That's it for the first post. This is a basic euchre strategy so there is not much to it. Keep coming back to learn more about the great game of Euchre.
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