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Slam-seeking conventions are codified artificial bids used in the card game contract bridge. Bidding and making a small slam (12 tricks) or grand slam (13 tricks) yields high bonuses ranging from 500 to 1500 points. However, the risk is also high as failure to fulfill the slam contract also means failure to score the bonus points for a game ...
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The Grand Slam Force is a bidding convention in contract bridge that was developed by Ely Culbertson in 1936. [1] It is intended to be used in cases where the combined hands of a partnership are so strong that a slam (winning at least 12 tricks) is a near-certainty and a grand slam (winning all 13 tricks) is a possibility.
Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series helped vault the Dodgers to the championship. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) The more things change …
In addition, private groups, such as the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which contributed more than $400,000 in 2005, [84] and smaller private groups also contribute significant funds; for example, the Grand Slam Club Ovis has raised more than $6.3 million to date for the conservation of sheep. [85]
Grand Slam (figure skating), winning all three major annual senior-level international competitions within a single season; Grand Slam (rugby union), one national team defeating all others in the Six Nations Championship; Grand Slam (shinty), one club winning four annual shinty trophies; Grand slam, in roller derby, a five-point scoring pass
It will be the fourth Grand Slam event and third major of the 2024–25 curling season. A new scoring rule will be tested at the event where a team will lose the hammer after two consecutive blank ends. The decision was made following three straight blanks between Brad Gushue and Mike McEwen in their round robin match at the 2024 National. The ...
The Grand Slam Club: Faro Fannin, commissioned for Foundation for North American Wild Sheep (FNAWS) Convention, Reno Nevada, U.S.A., 2001 The Collection of Yukon Supreme Court Justice, the Hon. Ron Veale: Denali (on display in his Chambers), Whitehorse, Yukon Canada, 2000