6/9/2023 0 Comments Pinocle meld![]() ![]() That’s a major reason to pass one heart if you can – so the other guy doesn’t do it to you. You can also do it without hearts – a long run of some other suit and the high cards in the remaining suits and a void of hearts will do it. I was able to just open with an undisguised moonshot – unless all the remaining hearts belong to one guy, and he’s not my partner, and he plays to take a heart from the first card, he cannot stop that hand. I was once dealt a natural moonshot in 4-player Hearts – A-K-Q-J-10-9 of hearts, A-K-Q of spades. If they take them, I dump as much as I can…if they let me take them, my weaknesses are gone and I can put the hammer down. When going for a moonshot, if my cards aren’t dominant, I will usually play my weak cards that the enemy can take early. It’s cheaper to pass out of hearts and lie low and hope someone else plays the hero, so it’s tempting, but after getting shot on a few times, you realize that’s a “passive, hoping” strategy and over the long term passive hope does not win games consistently.Ĭonversely, if the other players pass you stuff like A-K-Q of hearts, especially repeatedly, it indicates they are lying low and they’re ripe for a moonshot attempt. To clarify, the reason you’ll have a hard time against competent payers is because they take steps to ensure they can stop a moonshot (such as retaining one heart higher than one they pass) or they intentionally play to distribute hearts to more than one other player. ![]() I agree with markdash, you’ll only manage to shoot the moon successfully against competant players if you have an absurdly strong hand.
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