Jail isn't the real world , bro. No disrespect, I served a year in county, but jail house rules are way different the official ones

How? Low hearts lead, p covered with highest card op didn't have, sloughed his highest non face card. Slightly risky nil, but first hand was fine and the nil was risky but saved due to bad pmayer to the right. High-risk high reward.

A set is when the opponents don't make their bid. It is the worse thing that can happen in spades. If the opponents bid 6 and get 6 they get 60 points. If they don't get 6 they lose 60 points.

Yeah, Corey Adams pointed it out good. To add on, man's in the video was trying to have himself and his partner play in a way that sets the opponents (meaning prevents them from making their bid and consequently losing points; losing points in spades means you have to work _that_ much harder to catch up, like falling behind in a race). The guy's qualm was that his partner wasn't playing aggressively enough to set the opps, when she had the opportunity to take a book and keep the opps from making their bid.

Nils are soooo annoying

I agree with the KZbin guy. The game is only to 200 points with a 10 bag penalty. It's so rare to get 10 bags with only a 200 point game. So bags are just extra good points to me. The shorter the game, then the less the 10 bag penalty matters. For instance, in the 100 points to win games, the team with more bags wins close games since they can win by 1 or 2 points. It's good strategy so you dont have to win by a whole book. Say that you are down 52 to 70 in a 100 point to win game. They bid 5 so you need to bid 8 if you want to win 132 to 120. Since you have the two bags you can just bid 7 so you can win 123 to 120. So if you can set someone by takin 3 extra bags, you better unless you are playing to 500 points. Regardless bid the number of 10 point books that you think is likely, but bags can win close games. It's obviously not good strategy to just win by getting 1 point bags on purpose every time. Make sense ? Or do you disagree ?

The bag penalty is when you get 10 bags. Since the games are only to 200 points you can easily avoid 10 bags. Every hand you should be playing to set since the bag really don't matter.

I think both sides are valid, but I think that the dude in the video (while he could've been a tad chiller about it) did have a point. The reason why is because (to sum up what everyone else in this thread is saying concisely) the chance to set the opponents is worth the extra bags. And in a game to 200 points, you'll likely win the friggin' game _long_ before the bag penalty gets applied. So it makes the most logical sense to go for the set at all costs if there's an opportunity.

It's called renege and your penalized books or points. Depends on house rules. Usually you lose three books (30 points)

Walking means winning a book. He has a queen of heart and Ace of heart. He also has a total of 5 out of 13 hearts so chances of that queen walking/winning a book is low because there are only 8 hearts left for three people which means on average there are two people with three hearts and one with two hearts. Therefore the likely number of trials of any body winning books with hearts before spades are played would be two trials since one person can likely only play hearts twice before they can cut with spade. He wants to win two books of hearts with them before spades cut. In this player's scenario, only the people with the ace and king of hearts should expect to win the first two books of hearts before spades can cut hearts. So he plays a spade instead of leading with the ace of hearts because he hopes that someone will play the king of heart first so he can beat the king of hearts with his ace of hearts and then immediately win the next book with his queen of heart. Hence I'm gonna push a spade to see if my queen will walk. His style of play like many people would be to always lead with whatever non-spade aces you have. He is pushing spades before his ace of heart to set a trap for the king of heart. Does that make sense ? Or do you think I am wrong? Or did I even answer your question? Happy spades !

Means he thinks he has enough trump to take his opponents trump. They can’t cut if they don’t have trump. Your queen walks if there is no trump

@@TheKos2Kos how can playing a low Spade translate into making someone else play the King of hearts? And why a low spade and not one of the other hearts?