Bidding With a Partner in the Game of Spades

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dan Kimbrough on behalf of expertvillage.com, in this clip we are going to discuss how to bid a spade hands based on partnership rules. What partnership rules means is that you and your partner will enter one bid and the opposing team would enter one bid. The way you do this is you look at your hand and you tell your partner what you have as far as definite and maybes. In this hand as you can see we have the ace of hearts and the ace of clubs. Aces are consider definites, so you have 2 definites. Now you also have the jack of hearts and the jack of clubs, those two would be consider possibles. You don't know how the cards are going to fall so you are not quiet sure whether or not they are going to happen. So and you have as you can see here, a few spades they are pretty low so those spades aren't going to help you out in the long run. So you can tell your partner that you got 2 definites and 2 possibles. Depending on what your partner tells you will decide what you decide to bid as a team. Your partner says I got 3 definites and a possible that is 5 and 3 possibles. The conservative bid would be to go 6, you definitely have 5 you got 3 possibles amongst you, that means one of those possibles is going to actually occur. So you would bid 6 that way, you can be even more conservative and bid 5 but then you run the effect that you end up sandbagging and you can be aggressive and go 7 because some people play the rule of thumb as every two possibles is one definite, you got three rounded up. "