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Summary: How to sand bag, a technique for winning at spades; learn this and more in this free online instructional video on playing cards.
Dan Kimbrough has 9 years experience in program planning and presenting. He has used card games as developmental tools for issues such as diversity, team building and social...read more
"Hi, my name is Dan Kimbrough on behalf of expertvillage.com, in this clip we are going to discuss throwing a game in order to make the other team sandbag. When playing spades, sandbagging is when you accumulate too many extra books because you under bid. It may get you a point that the other team has a pretty hecked lead on you but they have 9 sandbags if you are playing with the accumulate of sandbag rule. This may be a point in time which you and your partner not talking but decide that you are going to throw a game. If you are playing in your hand and you could feasibly take a book but that book could set them over and make them loose a 100 points, it may be worth it to let it go. You may loose whatever you bid but there also going to loose a 100 points because they have sandbagged. It is not a technique you want to use often but sometimes if it is a close game and you could knock them down a 100 and you only loose 50 for not getting what you bid, it may work out to even it out a little bit, even put you ahead. Again that is not a strategy that you want to use often but sometimes it does come in handy. "
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