Hi Canasta Lovers,
Have you ever noticed how on some days you can lay down three big jokers and a deuce and on your partner's next turn she will close that canasta with the fourth big joker and two deuces? When that happens there is a good chance you're HOT!
Have you ever noticed that on other days you can lay down six wild cards on your first turn and you and your partner can wait the whole game and never see another wild card? When that happens, chances are you're NOT!
How about when you open your hand with 180 beautiful points? You are HOT! How about when you need 125 points and can't pick a clean three? You are NOT!
I find that these HOT and NOT days happen often. How to deal with them? This is not a canasta teacher speaking now but a superstitious card player thinking aloud. When I feel I am having a HOT day I am a much more aggressive player. I will try for those joker canastas. I am much more apt to pick a huge pack with 6 sevens in it (hope my partner is also having a HOT day too). On a NOT day I don't even like to lay down four wild cards at the beginning of the hand. I will play a very conservative game, try to stay out of trouble and wait for Lady Luck to reappear. She will, if you have patience!
With summer ending (although it is hard to tell here in Paradise) and fall beginning tomorrow, it is time for many of us to start to focus on the Jewish High Holidays. I want to wish all of my friends and followers a very sweet, very healthy, and very prosperous New Year and may we all be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year.
See you soon Canasta Goddesses.
Love, Barbara
