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In basic pitch, a smudge bid is a 5-point bid. In some variants, making smudge grants additional points. ... Reverse pitch follows all of the rules of basic pitch ...
Cinch, also known as Double Pedro or High Five, is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family derived from Auction Pitch via Pedro. [1] Developed in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s, [2] it was soon regarded as the most important member of the all fours family in the USA, but went out of fashion with the rise of Auction Bridge. [3]
Pedro is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family based on auction pitch.Its most popular variant is known as cinch, double Pedro or high five which was developed in Denver, Colorado, around 1885 [1] and soon regarded as the most important American member of the all fours family.
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The pitch was a ball before it even started toward the plate. ... Nonetheless, to this point, the rules have been more of a novelty than a nuisance. During Thursday’s simulated game, ...
Around the middle of the 19th century among American players an innovation spread, allowing the eldest hand to "sell the trump", i.e. auction the privilege to pitch. This early form of auction pitch is now known as commercial pitch. In commercial pitch the players in turn get a chance to bid 1–4 points for the privilege of pitching, or pass.
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It is pitch, not high-low-jack that requires players to deal out 2 or 3 cards at a time, in doing so the dealer "pitches" the cards, and that is how the game got the name 'pitch'. Standard pitch is a four point game, the five is meaningless, the five may have meaning in another variation called 5 point pitch.