Keeping Score in Spades

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Now, if every nil looked like this, I'll just throw out a real basic one, two and three of spades, two, three, four and five of diamonds. We have four three is seven and two, okay. This hand is probably as rare as getting all aces and kings. Now you'd say why. Well, if you look at the bottom cards on all four suits in balanced hands, there's no way that this hand is going to take a trick. It just, well, you could have a freak thing with a cross trump in spades, but basically the highest card in each suit, well, it you took the six of hears you'd have to have some pretty funky play, but this hand is most overwhelming not going to take a trick. So, if you're dealt the hand that has all these wonderful low cards, in other card games if you had this in a Bridge hand, you'd get nothing, but in Spades, whoever put this feature in called the nil bid or the zero bid, you're rewarded with a hundred points if you make a nil. So, if you picked up this type of hand you would say "nil" and you wouldn't be at any risk. Now not all nil's are going to be that easy and sometimes you need your partner to cover you or to help you make your nil. Now keep in mind that the nil bid gives you one hundred points plus the partners bid. So if your partner bid the average say four or five and you made the nil plus the five you would pick that premium of a hundred points plus the five so that's a hundred and fifty. That's about thirty percent of a five hundred point game. So, in summary, game is five hundred points. Whoever gets to five hundred points first wins. If by chance you're tied, you play an extra hand. Most of the modern tournaments are run with ten hand games. Also, if you are set or you're defeated then you lose the number of points that you bid so please keep that in mind. Again, all of this can be covered on the Internet. It can be covered in the book. Bid your hand as accurately as possible. That way you will be rewarded with the value of your bid and you often times you may get to make your bid and set the opponents. Five hundred point games.

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