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As most of you know, a next call is a strategy where the person in the seat jus left of the dealer name trump in the opposite suit of the same color as was just turned down, if dealer turned down a heart, a diamond call by 1st seat is considered playing next. The reasoning behind the next call is that your opponents mostly likely don't have the bowers or have any strength in that color. If they did they would have ordered, or picked up the turn card. Well if they don't have them and you don't have them, then they are either in your partners hand or in the kitty. In the hand below even though 1st seat has no cards of next (diamonds) this is a great next call. The best part is the look on your opponents face when they realize you just bid with no trump in your hand, and made your point. Your opponents may even think your cheating. But it's about winning not what others think.

Below is a hand that I played recently.

  Seat 2

 K 9  
 A Q  
 K   
 10   

  Seat 1

 A   
    
 A   
 A Q  

Turn card
 Q

  Seat 3

 J 10  
 10 9  
 10   
    

  Dealer

       
 K   
 J  9    
 K 9  

The dealer turned down the Queen. Because a red card was turned down, there was a good chance my opponents held mostly black cards. Many times I have called next with only one trump and a off suit ace. In this hand I had all off suit three aces. Two black Aces, plus the Ace of hearts. Because the score was such that a euchre would not really hurt us, I decided to try a no trump next call. In Euchre as in any game of chance, you have to stick your neck out once in a while. Actually this was a fairly safe hand to play. Try bidding on some of the hands that you just think about, you may be pleasantly surprised. There is nothing worse than passing on a hand, and then you realize you could have made a point.