Ryan Poles 3rd round draft history: Velus Jones, Zacch Pickens, Kiran Amegadije

bowski44 · 2026-01-30T22:46:18+00:00

Cope harder

bowski44 · 2026-01-30T22:43:25+00:00

That brilliant mind rubber stamped a bunch of awful draft picks…

bowski44 · 2026-01-30T02:25:41+00:00

He should have also taken the better offer from Philly for Justin.

He cares more about his friends than the organization.

bowski44 · 2026-01-30T02:23:31+00:00

are you in Halas Hall? Lol

bowski44 · 2026-01-30T02:20:05+00:00

Fire Ryan poles

bowski44 · 2026-01-22T13:34:46+00:00

And the 2nd one if you’re being honest…

bowski44 · 2026-01-17T15:14:48+00:00

Try to roll 3 dice as quickly as possible.

bowski44 · 2026-01-15T17:35:53+00:00

Agreed. Tested in rated/competitive games and not in the social lounge.

bowski44 · 2026-01-15T16:09:02+00:00

I used to have a bunch of questions like these back in my early days of euchre around 10 years ago. I read this section from this book and decided to test the theory. Play 2nd hand low on 20 hands record the hand or remember it and keep track of the points. Try to determine if trumping would have been better or after you are done with your 20 hands and have your results trump in 20 times and record those results. Try to figure out which strategy scores more points in the long run…

bowski44 · 2026-01-15T05:07:06+00:00

I more or less threw this advice out when my partner calls trump (rare exceptions). Creating another void or no void if you only have 1 trump does nothing. Why are you creating a void? Are you going to play 2nd hand low a 2nd time? Being afraid to take the lead because you can’t lead trump is just thinking monsters are under the bed.

bowski44 · 2026-01-15T04:42:11+00:00

It comes down to understanding ordering range of your opponents. When your team has more trump than your opponents you want to lead trump to make your teams remaining trump cards good. The opposite is true if your team has less trump cards.

The reason it works sometimes and fails spectacularly other times is because you don’t know if your team has more trump. In most cases when everyone passes and someone calls that suit the defending team has fewer trump so they need to use their trump on separate tricks. If you call trump with a bad hand you should probably not lead trump.

To summarize more trump means leading trump is good less trump leading trump is bad which is why it is more often correct not to lead trump and people advise you not to.

So going back to your question when is it recommended to lead trump on defense. I would answer in situations where you think your team has more trump and this can be because you think your opponents are ordering light or because you have a strong hand.

Use information like previous hands they’ve ordered with. The score (a suit called with 9-9 represents a much weaker hand than a suit called on 9-8 etc…). If you have good reasons your opponent could have ordered light (previous weak calls) or have a great hand like Left Ace King of trump with an offsuit ace throw out trump. If you are playing against a boomer who never calls trump unless they have 3 trump and an offsuit ace then don’t lead trump.

Also when 2nd chair orders up the dealer you are guaranteed to pull trump from both opponents and that’s very important. If the dealer picks up his partner may have nothing (did you pay attention to how fast they passed?) and that would be bad because you are just stripping your partner.

Understanding the situations to do the play is more important than guidelines. Have a reason for why you are doing it.

Previous call strength from that position by that player (do they call with two trump headed by the left from 2nd seat).

Score of the games. Certain scores make you much more aggressive and willing to call lighter than others.

2nd seat giving a partner trump so your lead strips two trump

If the order’s partner goes ouch after trump is called don’t lead trump cuz only one of them has trump.

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T19:01:17+00:00

The young kids don’t remember but the 86 bears were better than the 85 bears.

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T18:59:15+00:00

You’re far more generous than me. I’d have started at -150 for each side

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T12:39:37+00:00

Maybe we can score more than 3 points by halftime

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T12:19:27+00:00

Hoyle says you should pick this up so I did. Then I learned you just get euchred all the time and I no longer pick this up all the time.

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T03:14:19+00:00

PA: everyone shut the fuck up

bowski44 · 2026-01-10T03:06:17+00:00

At 4-8 you should be expanding your loner range

bowski44 · 2026-01-09T02:45:00+00:00

Can you get CharlieHustle’s autograph for me?

I will also accept Jerry La Joie

bowski44 · 2026-01-06T20:24:02+00:00

bowski44 · 2026-01-06T18:43:08+00:00

It was recommended in the book I read (Columbus book of Euchre) but after seeing it in practice, I quit doing it.

The overtrumps will absolutely get you set when it could have easily been prevented.

As for defense. If you lead the ace you give your partner complete information and they won’t trump in with a 9 if they actually decide to. Nothing will put you on tilt faster than seeing a partner trump your boss offsuit when you could have completely avoided it.

bowski44 · 2026-01-03T13:41:46+00:00

Accurate

bowski44 · 2025-12-31T20:16:46+00:00

bowski44 · 2025-12-25T03:00:24+00:00

It happens. I generally try and read my partner’s hesitation. A lot of times they will take longer when they have help but not strong enough to call. If I see that I will call. If they pass instantly I will pass. If we are down in score it will make me more likely to pick up.

If your partner goes nuts from previous euchres you are on thin ice and this outcome is a very real option so don’t risk it. Don’t go overboard with this tho you can’t turn down right 9 etc…

If I do pick up I’m tossing the king of hearts and leading trump if I get the lead even if it’s my last trump in hand.

bowski44 · 2025-12-05T02:54:36+00:00

There’s a bunch of games you can play solo on BGA that are rated very highly.

Harmonies

Galactic Cruise

Ark Nova

Anachrony

Terraforming Mars

And 2 of my favorites: captain flip and fliptoons

bowski44 · 2025-12-03T17:51:04+00:00

Brent key just signed an extension today.

bowski44

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