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But expert players will almost always underbid by 0.5-1 tricks, because you never know when a distribution might put you in a situation where say you have 2, King, Ace of clubs (seems like a guaranteed two tricks, right?), if you bid that suit as 2 tricks, and don't have a buffer in your total bid, ...

I wanted to chime in and say everything azcats wrote is really good advice. They are one of the best players on here, but if you are looking for a starting point in spades strategy, what they wrote is a great place to start. Yes, losing 100 points when you bag out seems like a lot at the time. But i...

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I see both sides here, and I just wish the Elite league score increase/decrease better reflected this. If I am top 5 and get matched with someone who is very mediocre at spades, and we lose to two other top 5 players, I should see a negligible drop in arena score, not pretty much the same drop I wou...