If you are looking for a tournament partner, you’ll find that many sectionals and regionals and all national tournaments have a partnership desk onsite, staffed by volunteers whose mission it is to make compatible bridge matches. They will be thrilled and encouraging! If you don’t already have a partner, ask the manager or director to find one for you. Let your club manager know that you’re about to play in your first duplicate game. Many other games are “stratified” so that your scores are compared only to others at your level.īefore your first trip to a club or tournament, you may want to call ahead. Most clubs and tournaments have games especially for new and intermediate players.
You may want to start in a newcomer game (meaning new to duplicate, not necessarily new to bridge). You win the trick, you lead to the next trick.Īfter all 13 tricks have been played, the only thing left to do is record the score. This will be the case for each trick in the deal. Once all four cards have been played to the first trick, the winner of the trick gets to make the lead to the next trick. The dummy is silent and may only play the card called. The declarer will “call” the card that dummy will play each time it is dummy’s turn in the rotation. Immediately following the opening lead, the dummy will put all their cards on the table face up and sorted by suit (when playing in a trump contract, the trump suit is placed on dummy’s right). They get to play the first card of the first trick. The player to the left of the declarer is the opening leader. The declarer decides what card is played from their hand and the dummy hand (partner’s hand). The declarer is the player who first bid the denomination of the final bid. On the declaring side are the declarer and the dummy. The pair trying to make the contract are the declaring side, the pair trying to “set” the contract are the defenders. When the auction ends, each player takes on a specific role. Get ready to take some tricks! One side will try to fulfill the contract the other will try to stop them from reaching that goal.
You’ve dealt, sorted your hand, counted your HCP, and bid to a final contract. That base is six tricks and is called the “book”. There is a base number of tricks automatically built into a bid. One last thing about tricks before moving on to the auction. If your side loses the trick, the card is placed horizontally (“pointing” towards the opponents). If your side wins the trick, the card is placed vertically (“pointing” towards you and your partner). The cards are placed either horizontally or vertically. The placement of the played card after the trick will allow you to keep track of how many tricks you won or lost.Īt the completion of a trick each player will place their card face down on the table in front of themself. There are 13 tricks up for grabs in a game of bridge. Someone’s card will outrank everyone else’s, and that card wins the trick for the partnership (N-S or E-W). The rules of the game require you to play a card in the same suit as the led suit if you can. Each player going clockwise from the “leader” then plays a card to the trick. To put it a little more simply, the first card played in a trick is called a “lead”. Clinically defined, in bridge, a trick is:įour cards played in rotation after a card has been led by the player whose turn it was to lead (i.e., play first).
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