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Card tournaments are a fun place where you can test and prove your skills against other players. Playing in this kind of contest is essential to get better. While doing so you will meet many players with different experience and playstyle. This way you can become a much better player much faster. Not only that, but you can also find many friends and good rivals along the way!

To play a classic trick-taking partnership card game like Spades you need exactly 52 cards (plus jokers in some spades variations). There is an almost endless number of possibilities in which they can be combined. If you want to learn the answer to those questions – keep reading!

“Would I become better, if I develop my skills?”. “Is it all pointless and I just have to be one of those lucky people in order to win?”. If you are new to this game, you probably have just started to build your spades bid strategy and you have already asked yourself those questions. If you are a seasoned player, you probably have reached your own answer.
But what is the truth?

At their core, games in the Whist family are all trick-taking card games that are simple to learn but difficult to master due to their potential for scientific play. As you may have imagined, they are all more or less based on a classic English card game called Whist.

A uniquely breezy and strategic game to play online or with friends (or even on your phone!), spades gameplay can really suffer when players make some simple assumptions or misunderstand some of the strategy basics. As our teachers growing up always told us, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people, so here are some answers to some of the most common questions new players have about the game of spades.