How to Play Strait Whist : Use Your Partner’s Bidding to Your Advantage
And takes them all and get seven. I mean that’s an incredible advantage in the game. So use your partners bidding to your advantage. So if you have a good strong hand and, this is a bit of an exaggeration. This is a very powerful hand so obviously if it’s going to be my bid…
Tibetans protest over Beijing Olympic bid in Switzerland
A small group of young Tibetans have fiercely shown their opposition to Beijing’s efforts to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The activists gathered outside a hotel in the Swiss city of Lausanne to protest. The group from Tibetan Youth Association in Europe stood directly outside – holding banners and chanting and singing. With them a…
How to Play Double Deck Pinochle : Understand the Bids of Pinochle
There are only and this is another thing that I’ll show you the correlation between the bidding and the counting. There are only fifty counter cards, fifty cards in the deck that are, I’m sorry. Forty eight cards in the deck that earn you points during the play of the hand. They are aces, kings…
How to Play Spades : Risk Factors for Nil Bidding in Spades
If the rest of your hand was safe and balanced, would you bid nil with that? Absolutely not. Why would you bid nil with that? Do you honestly expect your partner to come up with ace, king, queen to pick you up? It’s just not realistic. This is a very bad suit, and it’s really…
How to Play Bid Whist : Understand the Minimum Bid of Four in Whist
In the game of Strait Whist, Kitty, Bid, Jokers what have you. You have to bid four. It is a requirement. It is a standard rule. There maybe some variations. You might play in a local game. Make sure you know the rules. In a nutshell, you have to start a bid of four. Dealer…
How to Play Spades : How to Use Nil Bids in Spades
The bid of nil. Nil is the strongest weapon that you have in the game of spades. By the way, there is another bid called blind nil or double nil. Double nil is a bid designed primarily, and that’s not this hand but, double nil is designed primarily to help rescue a lost game. In…
How to Play Double Deck Pinochle : How to Bid Beyond the 60 Level in Pinochle
So in order to bid beyond the sixty level you need to have an awful lot of meld to support you because even if you stopped at sixty and you only had twenty meld you have to take forty counters so there is a relationship and here’s a score sheet and I’ll just show you…
Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics
Los Angeles is bidding to host the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2024. Paris and Budapest also are bidding for the games and in September 2017 the International Olympic Committee will choose which of these cities hosts the 2024 games. The Olympics are mega events even for the world’s largest cities. They involve every level…
How to Play Bid Whist : Discarding to the Kitty in Whist
You’ve competing in the auction. Let’s just say your partner is bid four uptown. You’re encouraged by that. He goes to five and you’re faced with this decision. He goes to five downtown, four uptown, five downtown, obviously if you’ve got the high cards, are you going to push this to six? Well, your partner…