Would You Call Here?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:41 pm
This just came up in a game I just played.
The scenario - your side is down 9-8. You're in second seat holding this:
Upcard is .
First seat passes. Do you order your partner up or pass?
This is certainly an interesting scenario. You have two trump cards but no real power. You would have the knowledge that your partner is holding a sure trick with the right, though. Especially with you being in second seat (so not having that crucial last play), there's no real guarantee that anything you're holding here is going to be able to take a trick. With that said though, this hand is probably good enough to get at least one trick between that ace and the two trumps.
You also have nowhere to go if the dealer passes. With the score at 9-8, if dealer passes and first seat calls next, it's pretty much game over. If your partner is loaded to the teeth on red cards, then there's a decent chance that you're going to get euchred by ordering him up, which will also end the game in a loss for your side. So, what would you do here?
Spoiler
Here's how it actually played out in the game that I was in. I was the dealer here (so you'd be my partner deciding what to do here). I was actually holding this:
My partner chose to take the chance at the play here and did order me to pick up the right. I threw away the nine of diamonds. We ended up making march and won the game 10-9. However, in this particular scenario, I would have chosen to pick up the right if my partner passed and would have been seriously considering going alone. He naturally had no way to know that I had such a strong position in spades when he ordered.
If my hand would have been something like this instead:
ordering me up could have very easily lost us the game.
So, what would you have done here?
The scenario - your side is down 9-8. You're in second seat holding this:
Upcard is .
First seat passes. Do you order your partner up or pass?
This is certainly an interesting scenario. You have two trump cards but no real power. You would have the knowledge that your partner is holding a sure trick with the right, though. Especially with you being in second seat (so not having that crucial last play), there's no real guarantee that anything you're holding here is going to be able to take a trick. With that said though, this hand is probably good enough to get at least one trick between that ace and the two trumps.
You also have nowhere to go if the dealer passes. With the score at 9-8, if dealer passes and first seat calls next, it's pretty much game over. If your partner is loaded to the teeth on red cards, then there's a decent chance that you're going to get euchred by ordering him up, which will also end the game in a loss for your side. So, what would you do here?
Spoiler
Here's how it actually played out in the game that I was in. I was the dealer here (so you'd be my partner deciding what to do here). I was actually holding this:
My partner chose to take the chance at the play here and did order me to pick up the right. I threw away the nine of diamonds. We ended up making march and won the game 10-9. However, in this particular scenario, I would have chosen to pick up the right if my partner passed and would have been seriously considering going alone. He naturally had no way to know that I had such a strong position in spades when he ordered.
If my hand would have been something like this instead:
ordering me up could have very easily lost us the game.
So, what would you have done here?