The dealer turns the top card of the stockpile faceup and the suit of the card shown becomes the trump suit.The remaining cards will be placed in the center of the table to form the stockpile.The dealer deals the defined number of cards to each player.

You can decide before the game starts on a different number of cards to deal to each player, as long as all players receive an equal number of cards every round.You can also decide on a number of rounds to play, after which the game ends whether there are remaining cards or not.You’ll keep dealing equally until there are fewer remaining cards than there are players, that’s when the game ends. At some point the number of remaining cards will decrease to the point you’re going to have to give each player fewer cards so that they’d be distributed equally.During the second round, they will be given 2 cards each, and so on. During the first round, all players will be given one card each.These rounds will have an increasing and then decreasing number of cards dealt to each player.A game of Oh Hell is played over several rounds.All you need to play Oh Hell is 3 to 8 players and a regular deck of cards containing all 52 cards.