What is a bridge hand with no points called?
What is a bridge hand with no points called?
Bridge players use “yarborough” to designate a hand with no high-card points and NO TENS. Some bridge players loosely use the term “yarborough” to apply to any worthless (or nearly worthless) hand.
What is a bridge hand called?
Also called deal or hand. A device that keeps each player's cards separate for duplicate bridge. The dummy's hand. For example, "You're on the board" means "The lead is in the dummy".
What is a flat hand in bridge?
An opening bid of 2♦ to show a minimum opening bid with four spades and five or more hearts. Flat (Hand) A hand with 4-3-3-3 distribution. Float. An expression meaning that a bid is followed by three passes, ending the auction.
What are honor cards in bridge?
Honors. When there is a trump suit, the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of trumps are "honors." If a player holds four of the five trump honors, that partnership scores 100 above the line; all five honors in one hand score 150.