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You have kings all around. King, nope, you're not going to have anything all around because
your spade suit restricts it. How about Pinochles? Nope, I don't see any queen of spades over
here. Marriages, well you have a double marriage in diamonds, so now you not only get the fifteen
run, but don't forget if you just had a diamond suit like this you don't get the marriage
because it's contained within the run, but you have a bonus marriage so you have nineteen,
fifteen and four is nineteen, and here's a marriage in hearts for twenty-one, so you
have twenty-one meld in your hand. That's the bare basic requirement for declaring meld
so you feel pretty good because if you say you only had fifteen you're hoping that your
partner's going to produce six so what you're going to do here is if, you obviously will
have the opportunity to bid this hand and you're going to be declaring the meld and
if you were declaring meld you would wait for your partner as well. You have twenty-one
and you obviously have the opportunity. The dealer, the dealing is, the bid traditionally
is to the left of the dealer so this person will make a bid, and this person will make
a bid, and so forth. Your partner?s job is to try to give you, and we're going to tell
you about the bidding system a little bit later on. This is declaration of meld. You
can clearly see that you have twenty-one in meld. Now just for the sake of comparison.