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Such a suit is likely to be a good one for the defenders to attack. A long suit game try shows a suit of at least four cards, so that a double fit is not unlikely; if a major suit, that is a potential alternative trump suit. Anyway, it shows that a cover card is useful regardless of length, and other cards are likely to help. Golden fit
A 6 of cups is tucked under the deck in a game of Brisca, to show that cups is the trump suit. A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit; these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the terms trump card or to ...
The jack of the trump suit or the Jack of the same colour as the trump suit e.g. in Euchre or Reunion. left bower: the jack of the same colour as the trump suit. [24] right bower: the jack of the trump suit. [24] bring in a suit Make tricks in a plain suit after the adverse trumps are exhausted. [22] bury a card
Although they consume bidding space, splinter bids are very descriptive as they help partner to reevaluate his/her hand: soft honors (a king, queen or jack) in the splinter suit lose value, while honors in the other three suits gain value. In some positions if a simple bid of the suit would be forcing then a single jump can be a splinter.
In a large and popular category of trick-taking games, one suit may be designated in each deal to be trump and all cards of the trump suit rank above all non-trump cards, and automatically prevail over them, losing only to a higher trump if one is played to the same trick. [17] Non-trump suits are called plain suits. [18]
With 13 cards in each suit, an eight-card fit implies that only five trump cards can be held by the opponents. They will most likely be distributed 3-2 or 2-3 among the opponents, so playing trump for three rounds will probably draw all trump cards from the opponents and leave two additional trump to be used separately for offensive purposes.
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W E ♠ A543 ♥ KQ2 ♥ A43 ♦ KQ2 ♦ A43 ♣ KQ2 ♣ A43 will yield 13 tricks when played in spades on around 95% of occasions (failing only on a 5:0 trump break or on a ruff of the lead from a 7-card suit). However this combination is valued as only 12 tricks using the basic method (24 minus 4 and 8 losers = 12 tricks); whereas using the NLTC it is valued at 13 tricks (25 minus 12/2 and ...