Dealing can be made through many ways but it is usually done by the dealer in clockwise direction starting with the player on dealers left, dealing three or four cards from Pinochle Deck and dealing ends on dealer.

Dealer would offer cut to the players starting from the right and then hand out cards. Player with highest hand would deal first or player who picked the cards first would deal first. Each player draws a card from shuffled deck. Rank of Cards – Ace, 10, King, Queen, Jack, Nine The Shuffle and the Cut The average scoring, hand sizes are doubled when Double Deck is used. It can be played by more than 4 players at a time with two pinochle decks. The decks consist of two copies of all Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 9 and 10 of all the four suits making 48 cards.Ħ cards * 2 copies of each card (Red and Black) * 4 different suits = 48. Pinochle cards are used to play that are 48 in number. It was designed for two players but up to four players can play Pinochle. It is similar to games like Hearts, Spades, Euchre, and Bridges which are also trick talking. Two Handed pinochle and cut throat pinochle are the two most played common variations. It is derived from bezique, where points are scored by forming melds and trick talking.

Pinochle is trick talking card game played by 2-4 players with a single deck consisting of 48 cards.

2 handed pinochle