Tbolt65 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:25 pm
It would really be helpful to exactly know the other cards.
With score being 0-1 this hand with having both red jacks is your strongest call and demands a call at this score.
Your looking to score points not be safe and protect against a possible euchre which could hurt your team. There are scenarios to pass and play as such. However this isn't one of them. Play and call it up here always with your two bauers.
Tbolt65
Edward
It's important to consider that random partner's are more likely to call up a bower here if they have even just a couple of trump and an ace, either because they don't know any better or they don't trust their partner to pick it up. Maybe that's reading too much into it, but I would conclude that may already be a sign that my partner could potentially not be able to help.
I suppose then it depends on how likely the opponents are to try a desperate next call, and whether your hand is good enough to achieve a consistent euchre rate or if the opponents are more likely to steal points here than the original call itself. While you do have the right bower, and a small trump, there's still 4 trump remaining, and you have no aces in hand.
However, then it depends on if your partner in S2 actually has a decent black hand or if they would at least try to call on a marginal hand or if they're going to often leave you stranded here. The reason to pass here is mostly the hope that your partner has a decent black hand, while the original suit would have (potentially) been a euchre.
Lastly, I think you would have to calculate how much worse it is to try and make a point if you're forced to call diamonds here, as opposed to making a point with 2 bowers in hearts. You have a void in hearts, but seeing as hearts is in next, this may prove to not always be an easy trick to take, but I would be surprised if it was a drastically different outcome, though.
At the expert level this is obviously an easy call, but I don't know if the same can be said with random factors.