Short card-game lesson · 22 seconds
Count a Spades winner once
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Four spades do not guarantee four tricks. A useful bidding habit: explain each trick you expect to win, and count every card once.
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Four spades do not automatically mean four tricks. If you use one to trump a club, you cannot count it again as a later winner. Start with likely tricks, then check how each one would happen. Try the full Spades bidding lesson with Vanikar.
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