. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. er the chances the adversaries willtake to overbid him, and the more points he islikely to pile up in the honor column frompenalties in consequence. Trump honors, in Auction Bridge, are ofcomparatively small importance, except astrick-winners, because of the large number ofpoints usually piled up for penalties, and theincreased value of the rubber points, 250. 8o AUCTION BRIDGE BLACK SUIT DECLARATIONS A declaration of the odd only in spades isnever made except by the dealer, and whenhe bi
. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. er the chances the adversaries willtake to overbid him, and the more points he islikely to pile up in the honor column frompenalties in consequence. Trump honors, in Auction Bridge, are ofcomparatively small importance, except astrick-winners, because of the large number ofpoints usually piled up for penalties, and theincreased value of the rubber points, 250. 8o AUCTION BRIDGE BLACK SUIT DECLARATIONS A declaration of the odd only in spades isnever made except by the dealer, and whenhe bids the odd only, it is a sign of does not mean that he would like to playspades, but that he practically passes the bidalong to the others. If the dealer is reallystrong enough in spades to make the odd orbetter, he should bid two in spades; and evenif he has nothing But spades, he should de-clare them if he has three or four honors inthe suit. The dealer should always declare two inspades when he can count his hand up toeight by the rule given for red suits. Takethese cards, for instance:. The dealer does not want to play spades, butsimply to intimate to his partner that he has a AUCTION BRIDGE 8l very strong hand, chiefly in the spade players bid two in spades with any handwhich is not a weak one; but it is a very dan-gerous practice to name a suit which you arenot strong in, unless you bid the odd trickonly. The dealer should never declare clubs unlesshe is so strong in them that he is willing toplay them as trumps even if he is a rule, a club declaration is an invitationto the partner to increase t^ie bid to no-trumpsif he can protect both the red suits. When theclubs are not strong enough to be sure of theodd trick, it is usually better to declare theodd in spades, and wait for your partner toindicate something which the club suit mayhelp out. Do not be afraid that your partnerwill leave you in the hole on a spade make. With a sure trick in
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