Spades ♠️ Partner Bidding Strategy

[brandonm]

This is an instructional on how to get set!

[lancetaylor]

Put your clubs in between your hearts and diamonds. It would be a rookie mistake to play a high heart thinking it was diamonds just because it was a red card (Tips for beginners). I definitely don't see 5 tricks. I would not bid on a queen or jack.

[JaiiReed]

I would love to see him play that hand and get five books

[zackhopkins]

5 books where?? There's 3 possible 4

[aaronwhitaker]

Them cut books get you set around my
way 😂😂😂😂 ain’t no way in hell you get 5 out that hand

[tursinity]

I don't like how you bid that no way are you getting 5 books with it.

[Kathiskrystals]

Spades is a game of risk/reward management above anything else.

Everything in Spades is situational. The most important factor in deciding what to bid is the score of the game, second is the bid pattern on the hand, and third is the cards in one's hand.

The comment by the author of the video that he has never bid Nil indicates an extremely low level of experience with the game. Nil bids occur in almost every standard game played, and often more than one time.

There are a few Spades instructional books available on the market, and one in particular will improve a player's game tremendously. My suggestion is to look at the various books and their ratings, and make a relatively small investment in your game that will result in you not only winning a much higher percentage of your games, but having a lot more fun as well.

Regarding this specific hand, one could play it 1, 000 times and never take 5 tricks. Regarding the factors mentioned above, this would normally be a 3 or even 2 bid hand. Four would be a real push. Control and flexibility is critical when playing a hand. In general, it is better to bid conservatively and play aggressively everything else being equal.

However, if this likely is the last hand of the game, given the score one could bid anything from Nil (a bluff Nil in 3rd seat) to a crazy high bid in 4th seat if setting the opps is the only way to keep the game alive. There are very few absolutes in Spades other than technically forced bids on the last hand of a game.

Happy Spading

[danielburton]

4 is still optimistic....position is everything. Say the player to your right is first to act and plays a low heart first card....thats possibly your king losing. Diamonds are dead pretty much. 2 is the call here. Commit to losing the hearts, and hopefully trump the heart of club and win another with the ace. 3 a possible call depending on table position and calls beforehand.

[dizzmantle]

These comments are hilarious 😂 jailhouse spades are different cut him some slack he still learning y'all

[davem]

He said I could get 7 tricks and my partner have 1. You could play that hand 2 million times and never get 7 yourself

[KatB]

😂😂😂😂He’s gonna lose bad. Please don’t take advice from this man. There is only 3 books in his hand.

[vinnybrowne]

That is absolutely not a 5 bid. Nothing you said makes sense. Bid all spades 3 and up and bid all A K. Well do that math, that is 18 cards so you would have an 18 total bid for the table every game meaning both teams likely would set. The minute a table I'm sitting at bids 18 I get up and walk away because no one has any idea what they are doing. You have an easy 3 bid here, A of spades K of hearts and a cut on clubs. If you are really bold you could try a 4, maybe if you are bidding last and 4 would make the table bid 11.

[leftguard]

Cool, so if I get this same exact hand in a game I can bid 5 and after that hand is over my partner won't say something along the lines of, "uh....I gotta go home and pet my dog, I'm outta here"?

[TamiaSweet]

(K hearts, Cut a heart, Cut a club) 3 books. If you are playing with Jokers then that Ace of Spades might not survive. No Jokers then you have 4 books. Now if someone cuts Diamonds out the gate (b/c you have 5 diamonds) and they start playing all their spades then you will get set. I would call 3 if I didnt know my partner.

[Kizdo]

depending on the score and the rules I play I would say an easy 3. One for the A, another for the K heart, and another for cutting clubs, or hearts later on. You might even get 4, or less likely 2 but would depend on the distro of course.

[hellz]

5 books? You better revisit that strategy bro. No way do you have 5

[davem]

Your bidding 4 or 5 lmao. You have 2 and a strong 3 on a cut

[juancarrero]

I just started playing it I'm a beginner and I want to learn how to bid how to look at my hand and know what I have would appreciate any tips.

[noniecraig]

no nil withthe ace of spade in your hand.

[michael_stuff]

This hand is STRONG 2--weak 3---but YOU BID 4 or over you are SET ALL DAY