Back in: To make a partnership's first bid, having previously passed. · Balanced hand: A hand with balanced distribution in the narrow or wide sense just above.

Lead -- the first card played to a trick. Each of the other three players must follow (in clockwise order) by playing a card of that suit if they have one.

Entry. A card that allows a player to get on lead. Establish. Playing to dislodge the opponents' high cards in a suit in order to make tricks with lower cards.

A conventional agreement to play a jump response in a new suit as showing only an invitational hand with a good six-card or longer suit.

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Ruff. Another word for trump a way to win a trick and it means to play a trump card on a trick when that player has run out of the suit which was led.

A control card is an Ace, because you can take control of matters if that suit is led. In a suit contract, you can also control a suit with a void, because if ...

Trick. Four cards, one from each player, played in clockwise rotation. Void. No cards in a suit. Vulnerable. When a pair is vulnerable it affects game and slam ...

Balanced Hand. A balanced hand has cards in all suits and does not have shortages (voids, singletons) and/or length in any one suit.

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