I Design and Build Hand Crafted Cribbage Boards from Beached wood collected. After dealing a hand in Cribbage, the first decision you have to make is what cards to discard to your crib. The two gross hand values are very similar, but 889T is better in terms of net value by over a whole point. Gulf Island Cribbage, Salt Spring Island. Minus 4.57, (the average crib value for J6), for 5.95 points.

This gives a net hand value of 4.7 points. Made from 100 solid wood - NOT plywood or Veneers like other rails Includes. From the discard charts we can see that 6-8 produces cribs, on average, of 5.86 points. GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO BOXSPRING, BUNKIE BOARD, OR FOUNDATION, WATERPROOF. Divide this by 46, and we can see that this hand is worth an average of 10.56 points. Add another 10 for the ten outstanding Spades, and we have 486. Using your six cards as an example, 99TJ after an Ace cut is worth 8 and there are four left, 8x4 = 32. You simply calculate the hand value after every cut, and then multiply each value by the number of that card still in circulation.

If you are so inclined, you can easily calculate an average gross hand value, then subtract the average crib value associated with it, to see how that choice stacks up. As such, I wouldn't take its, 'suboptimal play', warnings as gospel. I don't believe that Cribbage Classic has been programmed with any knowledge of average discard values.

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