Euchre Tournament

Growing up in the Midwest, I learned to play euchre practically before I learned how to play poker. Euchre tournaments were the event of choice for a Friday night get-together. Although in the summer I preferred to play tennis, in the winter I loved to get together after work for a euchre game or two. We would get about eight people together and at a couple of tables, playing hand after hand and chatting up a storm. We would have drinks, smoke, and eat dinner together, playing sloppier and sloppier games as the night went on.

The great thing about a euchre tournament as opposed to some other sort of card game is that euchre is so easy. Basically, there is just enough strategy involved to make things interesting. In a game of euchre, a mediocre player can hold his own around excellent players because the game is more than half about luck. Nonetheless, there are certain places where you have to make the right decision, keeping the game interesting. You don't have to be really sharp, so you can get drunk while you play. Nonetheless, when you win you feel like you deserve the credit. Basically, it's a game halfway between hearts and war.

Of course it can get pretty competitive every now and then. Usually, we wouldn't have a formal euchre tournament, but every once in a while we would set up an official competition. It would take a long time to do. Everyone would get a chance to play with every other player on as a partner so that having a lousy partner wouldn't negatively impact your overall score. At the end of the night, we would tally up wins and losses and declare a grand winner. A typical euchre tournament could go on for several hours, but we didn't mind. We would be too busy talking smack, gloating, and gossiping to care.

Of course, there was one other aspect of the game that made it a lot of fun to play with your friends. Basically, the game of euchre is almost designed to make cheating easy. People would always try to get away with table talk, telling their partners what they had. At other times, folks would even try to stack the deck or steal the deal. Half of the fun was trying to get away with something or to catch the other team out when they tried to cheat in the euchre tournament.

Summary: Euchre tournaments are a common Friday night event for many people in the midwest. It is a card game where inexperienced players can compete with more experienced players since the game relies on the lick of the draw. It is a lot of fun when playing with a group of friends and card games can go on until the wee hours of the morning.

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