How to Use Probabilities & Percentages in Spades

Video Transcript

"Three and four is seven, and four is eleven, and two is thirteen. This is an extremely freakish looking hand and you may never see this hand in your lifetime. This hand is diminished in value because how many hearts do you honestly think you're going to run through here before somebody starts trumping it with spades, maybe one, maybe two. Diamonds you might get a couple as well and also keep in mind that all thirteen spades are massed in the other three hands so again to have this type of hand would be just strange hand so it doesn't happen. So the probabilities of getting evenly distributed hands are much more likely than getting hands than getting hands that happen to be spread out so wildly with voids and so forth. So you can always count on getting a few spades, a few of hearts, a few of diamonds and a few of clubs and so forth and the percentages or the layout of the hand is integral to how you're going to bid it because you have to adjust your bidding according to the type of hand that you have. The other thing is that when you are bidding the hand, aces, and I don't know where the ace of clubs is. It's probably kicking around here somewhere. These you can probably count on for three tricks, but if you have a very long to a club suit; you may not get this ace. If you have six or seven other clubs with this, you won't get that ace. Keep in mind too that trump is as good as gold. Nothing beats the ace of spades, nothing. Unless you're dealing with jokers and we don't play jokers in the normal game that's played or the standard that's played online. So you'll never lose the ace of spades. If you have the king and queen together, you're not going to lose those. Even if the ace takes one of those, you're not going to lose those. So the longer that your spade suit is in your hand the greater the power is in your hand. So please keep that in mind. Top cards, aces, kings, and queens, particularly aces and kings in what I call the side suits, and the longer your spade suit is. This is a tremendous suit because this is guaranteed seven tricks. You will never lose a trick with this type of suit. So keep in mind your hands tend to be balanced. Spades are a premium. Aces in the side suits are a premium."