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AUCTION PITCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUCTION See also:PITCH , a card See also:game which is a popular variation of All Fours (q.v.). The name is derived from the See also:rule that the first card played, or pitched, is the See also:trump suit, and that the eldest See also:hand has the See also:privilege of pitching it or of selling out to the highest See also:bidder. A full See also:pack is used, and the See also:cards See also:rank as in All Fours, namely from See also:ace down to 2, ace being highest in cutting also. From four to seven may See also:play, each player being provided with seven See also:white counters, and also with red counters in See also:case stakes are played for. Each player receives six cards in every See also:deal, three at a See also:time, no trump being turned. The See also:object is to get rid of the white counters, one of which may be put into the See also:pool either (1) for holding the highest trump played; (2) for having the lowest trump dealt to one; (3) for taking the See also:Jack (See also:knave) of trumps; or (4) for winning the game, namely the greatest number of pips that See also:count. In case of a tie of pips no game is scored. If the eldest hand decides to pitch and not to sell out, he may do so, but is obliged to make four points or be set back that number. If he decides to sell, he says " I pass," and the player at his See also:left bids for the privilege of pitching the trump or passes, &c. When a bid has been made the See also:rest must pass or bid higher, and the eldest hand must either accept a bid or undertake to make as many points as the bidder. If no bid is made he pitches the trump himself, without the See also:obligation of making anything. The first card played is the trump suit, the winner of the See also:trick leading again.

In trumps a player must follow suit if he can, and the same rule applies in See also:

plain suits, excepting that a trump may be played at any time (" follow suit or trump "). In play the highest card wins the trick unless trumped. When the hand is played out each player puts a white See also:counter into the pool for every point won, and the first player to get rid of all his seven white counters wins the pool and takes from it all the red counters, which represent See also:cash. This ends the game. In case two players count out during the same deal, the bidder has the first right to the pool, the rule being " bidder See also:counts out first." If the two players who count out are neither of them bidder, then they go out in See also:regular See also:order, i.e. high first, then See also:low, Jack and game. If a bidder fails to make his points he is set back that number. A revoke is punished by the offender being set back the number of points bid and forfeiting a red counter to the pool.

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