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This falls into the category of more on Bidding. You understand the game now, you understand
the principles, you understand the scoring, you understand reneges and following suit
and maybe you're going to take a shot at it on the computer and the computer deals you
this hand. Maybe you're playing with friends and you get a chance to look at this hand.
Let's evaluate this hand. We have a typical four, four, three, four, three. Let's see.
Two and four is six and three is nine and three is twelve. Of course I missed one, now
let's look at this hand. Anyway, we have a typical, five, three, three, two hand which
is the second most probable distribution that you'll pick up. Five, three, three, two from
four different suits. Ace, King of Hearts look good for two tricks, Ace, King of Clubs
for two tricks and the Ace of Spades is definitely one trick. Now the purest will say well, you
might not want to bid five because what happens if someone is trumping the third round of
Hearts? So if you're a conservative player and you want to ere on the side of being safe,
you could bid four on this and pretty much take that to the bank. If you're an accurate
or aggressive player you would say five but the risk is if you do get a bad break in one
of these suits then you're going to lose a trick that you were counting on so I would
say for the newer player or even for the experienced player as far as being safe, a four bid is
comfortable. Meaning that if you make that bid you're going to make forty points. Now
say your partner bids three and you've erred slightly and he's bidding pretty accurately
then you've pretty much got that covered. Again, when you're bidding your hand, bid
the tricks that you expect to take. Aces are usually winners, Aces and Kings together are
winners. Supposing that we had this Club suit looking something like this. Would you bid
that King of Clubs? It's a little risky it all depends on where the Ace is. If the Ace
of Clubs is over here, then the King is going to get swallowed up. If the Ace of Clubs is
in you partner's hand, this is the key card here, then your King will walk through. If
the Ace of Clubs is here well that's o.k. too, because if the lead comes through here
you'll get your King in.