After the trump is announced, the high bidder’s partner then chooses 4 cards from their hand to slide across the table face-down to their partner. The high bidder wins the bidding and then gets to declare which suit will be trump for the hand. Each player must either increase the bid or pass until there is only one player remaining. Once all cards are dealt, each player picks up and examines their cards and the bidding begins starting with the player to the dealer’s left. To begin, the dealer shuffles the deck and deals out the entire deck to each player, 3 cards at a time if single deck or 5 cards at a time if double deck. The non-high-bidding team gets to keep the points they earned during the hand regardless. If the high-bidding team makes their bid they get to keep their points but if they come up short, instead, their bid amount is subtracted from their score. At the end of the hand each player’s trick points are combined with their partner’s and added to their meld score. Similarly, each player earns trick points for pointer cards taken (Aces, Tens, and Kings). Each player gets points for the melds in their individual hand, and then each player’s points are combined with their partner’s. Whichever team wins the bidding gets to choose the trump and exchange 4 cards with their partner. In this form of the game there are two 2-person teams playing against one another.
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