You are the Forehand and speak first. Your hand: XXI, VI, III, K♥, K♣, C♠, J♦, 1♦, 10♣.
You hold the XXI and two lone Kings but only three Taroks in total. Bid Three, or pass?
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Answer
Pass. Two Kings look tempting, but each is only a third of a trick in this game: five-card suits and nine-card hands mean roughly a 68 percent chance somebody is void and traps a lone King on the very first round. The count that matters here lives in Taroks and honours, and three Taroks with one honour is thin. Wait for a hand where the Tarok majority does the work Kings cannot.