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Summary: Learn about uptown and downtown bids in whist in this free video series that will have you mastering this card game in no time.

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Learn About Uptown & Downtown Bids for Whist

OK. There are people who play the game. There are variations in the game where you are required to bid in certain increments. For example, rather than say, "OK, I'll bid three and not declare the direction." A very popular variant is the fact that you have to declare which direction you're heading. For example, you can say three uptown, which means that you want the high cards to win: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and so forth. The Aces are winners. Kings are winners. OK. This would be an uptown type of hand, especially if you had a predominant number of high cards. Now, it can be superseded on the same level by saying, OK, the ranking of the bidding is first the number (one, two, or three), say two uptown. And then somebody else right after you can say two downtown so downtown supersedes uptown on the same level. Then, no trump supersedes everything, so it can be three uptown, three downtown, three no trump. Or it can be three uptown, pass, three no trump, so no trump is King. It also has the greatest risk factor. This is called step bidding, half step bidding. We'll see that in bid Whist you have to go full step bidding. So remember the ranks uptown, downtown, and of course no trump. And that's the difference, and if you keep that in mind, always know the rules in which you're playing by because again until there's a governing body for Whist and bid Whist, there are going to be house rules, much like there are for Spades and Pinochle.

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