All About Passing Cards in Hearts

All About Passing Cards in Hearts

The Video Transcript:

This one will be relatively quick because we touched on this before, and we’ll touch on it in the next clip or the next segment.

The pass options in Hearts are left, right, across, and keep or hold. Holding hand means that you don’t get to pass anything; you have to play what you got.

That was added about maybe 50 years ago because it was decided that it did give the newer player or the lesser player, to use that terminology, an opportunity to equalize so that if maybe they were losing and the better player had was served up a hand that had, say, bad hearts and the queen of spades, they’d get slammed with a whole boatload of points, and it gives the other player a chance again to the game. Of course, it could also end the game too.

So passing options: left, right, across, and keeper, or just left, right, across, and no keeper. And one thing that intrigues me is to play a game that has all keeper hands; that, I think, would be a real challenge.