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to judge that your partner has a thirteenth or some other winning card in his hand ; in that case play a small trump, to give him the lead, that you may throw away any losing card in your hand, upon such thirteenth or other good card. |
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SOME DIRECTIONS FOR PUTTING UP AT SECOND HAND, KING, QUEEN. KNAVE, OR TEN OF ANY SUIT, &C.
1. Suppose you have the king, and one small card of any suit, and that your right-hand adversary plays that suit; if he be a good player, do not put on the king, unless you want the lead, because a good player seldom leads from a suit of which he has the ace, but keeps it to bring in his strong suit after the trumps are out.
2. Suppose you have a queen, and one small card, of any suit, and that your right-hand adversary leads the same ; do not put on the queen, because if the adversary have led from ace and knave, in that case, upon the return, he finesses the knave, which is generally good play, especially if his partner have played the king ; and you thereby make your queen ; but by putting on the queen, it shows your adversary that you have no strength in that suit, and consequently puts him upon finessing upon your partner throughout the whole suit.
3. Likewise observe, in case you should have the knave or ten with a small card of any suit, it is generally bad play to put up either of them at second hand, because it is 5 to 2 that the third hand has either ace, king, or queen of the suit led; therefore, as the odds against you are five to two, though you should succeed sometimes by
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