Quick Rules of Euchre

Euchre is one of the newest side games at CarbonPoker, Spin32 and PDC Poker. With deep roots, this popular game of skill is a trick-taking card game. With the American rules in play , I’m sure that they’ll be familiar to you. If not, here is a refresher.

The game is played in teams of two, with four players. Partners sit across from each other at the playing table. Euchre uses only 24 playing cards: Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, Tens and Nines — of all four suits. Knowing this is important for Euchre strategy.

When choosing who will deal, players usually deal until the first player receives a Jack. When that occurs, that player is the dealer of the first hand. The dealer button rotates clockwise.

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Each player is dealt five cards, clockwise. The cards that remain are referred to as the kit, or kitty. The kit’s top card is face up, beginning the bidding. In turn, the dealer asks players if the suit of the face up card should be the Trump. If this is the case, the dealer picks it up and discards to retain the 5 card hand. If no player selects it, in turn each player is given the chance to name the trump suit. If this doesn’t happen, it’s a misdeal.

A trump suit (determined at the beginning of the hand) outranks any other card or suit, paying no attention to the actual value of the card.

Each partnership is attempting to be the first to score at least 10 points.

The Jack of the trump suit is the most valuable card and is called the “right bower”. The “left bower” is the Jack of the same color. Example: if the trump suit was Spades, the Jack of Spades would be the “right bower” and the Jack of Clubs would be called the “left bower”. The left bower is the second most valuable card in the game. Following the two bowers, standard card rankings go into effect – starting with Ace.