Anyone here play pitch?

[Chef2]

If you don't, I'm sorry.

I have played for a long time.

Anyway, playing pitch with my father-in-law, grand-father-in-law, and wife's uncle.

10-point.

I get Q-J-High Joker-3.......bid 6.

Get the bid.

Fill up.

Partner (wife's uncle) gets nothing.

I go set.

I show him I mucked KQJ, (and the high joker with it)...and he went ballistic.

"God-dammit.......you had 3 of the first 4!"

:.......Yes....but I only had 1 point, and that wasn't a lock.

Tell me I made the right play.

 

[Pilot]

I do play, and did play tonight, oddly enough. First time in a year.

I'm not sure I understand what happened in your game. You bid six with Q-J-High Joker-3, won the bid ... then mucked KQJ-high joker? I may not understand the term "mucked" as it relates to this discussion.

 

[User 1019]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

Pitching Woo?
Isn't he a Chinese baseball star?

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

You had to bid 6 to get it?

 

[Chef2]

You had to bid 6 to get it?

yes.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

Pitching Woo?
Isn't he a Chinese baseball star?

Pitching Woo's great-great grandfather:

 

[Chef2]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

I love that movie.

 

[Chef2]

I do play, and did play tonight, oddly enough. First time in a year.

I'm not sure I understand what happened in your game. You bid six with Q-J-High Joker-3, won the bid ... then mucked KQJ-high joker? I may not understand the term "mucked" as it relates to this discussion.

"mucked" as in the cards I threw away. My partner asked me what I had in spades, and I laid over the KQJ, and thought he was gonna **** green apples.

 

[dmc]

YES! I have played ever since I was a kid. We also call it Set Back. We play for a nickle a point. When you are little its really cool to win a couple bucks like that and stay up until very late. We have always played just up to 4 points though. I did play the other way a couple times, its fun also. I think its the greatest card game in the world and cant wait to carry on the tradition with my grandkids. On my side of the family that is what we do when we get together, always. Lots of fun!


although, reading your post in detail, maybe it is a different game? High, Low, Jack, and Game?

 

[Chef2]

YES! I have played ever since I was a kid. We also call it Set Back. We play for a nickle a point. When you are little its really cool to win a couple bucks like that and stay up until very late. We have always played just up to 4 points though. I did play the other way a couple times, its fun also. I think its the greatest card game in the world and cant wait to carry on the tradition with my grandkids. On my side of the family that is what we do when we get together, always. Lots of fun!

We occasionally play 5-point (Hi, Lo,Jack, Joker, game) or even 13-point (A,J,J,HiJ,LoJ,10,3,off3,2)

 

[TrooperBari]

I do play, and did play tonight, oddly enough. First time in a year.

I'm not sure I understand what happened in your game. You bid six with Q-J-High Joker-3, won the bid ... then mucked KQJ-high joker? I may not understand the term "mucked" as it relates to this discussion.

"mucked" as in the cards I threw away. My partner asked me what I had in spades, and I laid over the KQJ, and thought he was gonna **** green apples.

Your Q-J-High Joker-3 were in something other than spades, then. That makes more sense. In which suit was your bid?

Just going off of what I've read so far, I'd lean toward your partner's position. For me, going with Q-J-High Joker-3 is a bit riskier than K-Q-J as it leaves the ace and king floating out there somewhere. Of course, I only play at family gatherings anymore, so my pitch could be rusty beyond repair.

 

[copperpot]

YES! I have played ever since I was a kid. We also call it Set Back. We play for a nickle a point. When you are little its really cool to win a couple bucks like that and stay up until very late. We have always played just up to 4 points though. I did play the other way a couple times, its fun also. I think its the greatest card game in the world and cant wait to carry on the tradition with my grandkids. On my side of the family that is what we do when we get together, always. Lots of fun!


although, reading your post in detail, maybe it is a different game? High, Low, Jack, and Game?

This is the way I play, too: just those four points.

 

[Chef2]

I do play, and did play tonight, oddly enough. First time in a year.

I'm not sure I understand what happened in your game. You bid six with Q-J-High Joker-3, won the bid ... then mucked KQJ-high joker? I may not understand the term "mucked" as it relates to this discussion.

"mucked" as in the cards I threw away. My partner asked me what I had in spades, and I laid over the KQJ, and thought he was gonna **** green apples.

Your Q-J-High Joker-3 were in something other than spades, then. That makes more sense. In which suit was your bid?

Just going off of what I've read so far, I'd lean toward your partner's position. For me, going with Q-J-High Joker-3 is a bit riskier than K-Q-J as it leaves the ace and king floating out there somewhere. Of course, I only play at family gatherings anymore, so my pitch could be rusty beyond repair.

My QJ3 was in diamonds. The joker plays anywhere.
My reasoning was that with KQJjoker......I've only got 2 points (jack,joker), and if I don't fill up, I'm probably set.
No ace, no 3, no 2.

My diamonds, if I fill up, hold the 3, I've got 4 locked (roll the jack)......if my partner gets anything (which the ******* didn't) then I'm fine.

He didn't get Jimmy, Julie or Jack ****.

 

[TrooperBari]

I do play, and did play tonight, oddly enough. First time in a year.

I'm not sure I understand what happened in your game. You bid six with Q-J-High Joker-3, won the bid ... then mucked KQJ-high joker? I may not understand the term "mucked" as it relates to this discussion.

"mucked" as in the cards I threw away. My partner asked me what I had in spades, and I laid over the KQJ, and thought he was gonna **** green apples.

Your Q-J-High Joker-3 were in something other than spades, then. That makes more sense. In which suit was your bid?

Just going off of what I've read so far, I'd lean toward your partner's position. For me, going with Q-J-High Joker-3 is a bit riskier than K-Q-J as it leaves the ace and king floating out there somewhere. Of course, I only play at family gatherings anymore, so my pitch could be rusty beyond repair.

My QJ3 was in diamonds. The joker plays anywhere.
My reasoning was that with KQJjoker......I've only got 2 points (jack,joker), and if I don't fill up, I'm probably set.
No ace, no 3, no 2.

My diamonds, if I fill up, hold the 3, I've got 4 locked (roll the jack)......if my partner gets anything (which the ******* didn't) then I'm fine.

He didn't get Jimmy, Julie or Jack ****.

I can see that. I guess my thinking would be that with K-Q-J-Joker there's a better chance to wait/draw out out the ace and keep more of what you already have, but either way you're awfully reliant on outside forces.

 

[Pilot]

You would have had four cards at the time of bidding each way, though, right? So you would have had about the same chance of filling up both ways through the kitty.

In the second hand, you could have lured the Ace out with the King or the Queen or just a trash card, then been able to take at least the next two pots and if the off-jack gets played on any of those, the next three pots. I think you'd very likely have gotten at least five or six, and maybe more, depending on where the three ended up. If the guy with the ace has the three or your partner has it and has more than one card, you're likely to get the three.

 

[Chef2]

You would have had four cards at the time of bidding each way, though, right? So you would have had about the same chance of filling up both ways through the kitty.

In the second hand, you could have lured the Ace out with the King or the Queen or just a trash card, then been able to take at least the next two pots and if the off-jack gets played on any of those, the next three pots. I think you'd very likely have gotten at least five or six, and maybe more, depending on where the three ended up. If the guy with the ace has the three or your partner has it and has more than one card, you're likely to get the three.

I would have needed two cards to fill up both ways. Here's the thing, though....

If I take the bid with KQJ joker, I have to fill up with at least 1 more point card, and hope my partner has the Ace. Him having the 3 does me no good if I don't have the ace. That's an instant set.

Since I took the bid with QJ joker 3, I just need to fill up. I don't need to pull any more pointers out of the pile. I fill up (which I did), I should get 5 easily (which I got). Still went set, though.

Partner had 1 card, and it helped nada.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

Pitching Woo?
Isn't he a Chinese baseball star?

They were pitching Yu a few weeks ago ...

 

[EStreetJoe]

Only things I pitch are tents and woo.

Pitching Woo?
Isn't he a Chinese baseball star?

I'm disappointed.
In this crowd I thought someone would have called me Father McCulcahy after making that comment.