General

• Try to win the game as quickly as possible.
• Any cards you play can (and probably will) be used against you.
• Inexperienced players are often so preoccupied with whether or not they can play a card, they don’t stop to think if they should play it.
• Sometimes it can be beneficial to intentionally take the 3-card penalty.
  • There are at least two reasons why you might want this:
    1. To get a specific card, if you think you can not win without it.
    2. To deplete the deck and end the game in a tie.
• It is sometimes possible to "trap" an opponent's card.
  • For example: suppose you have Q♥Q♥K♣K♣K♦K♦K♠K♠ in your hand, but you don't have K♥.
    • Any run that includes K♥ would require a Q♥, and any set that includes K♥ would require another K.
    • So if your opponent has one of the two K♥, they can never play it, so they can never win! (But they can still tie.)