The only case you don't is with two cards in one suit (and one in another) when it is sometimes better to discard one of these than the odd card. In the first round, where you can't trump or follow suit, you normally discard your lowest card. I got the stated House Edge but there are a few quirks about discarding. there are 21 cards left in the pack lower than your cards, so you play 999 but fold 998 except play QJ3, KJ2 and fold A76). Three different suits - you need 21 outs (i.e. play J2+ with A, J5+ with K, Q4+ with Q, Q8+ with J, K7+ with 10, A7+ with 9, AT+ with 8. fold if your one card suit is 7 or lower. fold if your two card suit is 10-high or lower. (as a rough rule fold with non-trump 6x or worse, your actual trump card doesn't seem to matter much).
(ii) 1 trump - usually play but fold if your other two cards are very small I'm looking into a possible strategy for this and get that you should fold just under 41% of hands.Īpproximately (there are a few close exceptions)
