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#1 User is offline   cuckoo5 

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Posted 2014-April-25, 21:38

I was watching advanced players, and they were referring to 'cut' - please can someone enlighten me. many thanks
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Posted 2014-April-25, 22:31

Isn't it another way of saying "ruff" or "trump?"
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Posted 2014-April-25, 22:46

people i know use it to refer to sensible bidding (cut drugs are those that have been mixed with some other substance to reduce purity/strength and perforce increase profits, as opposed to uncut hard core pure drugs which would symbolise wild or very odd bidding)
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Posted 2014-April-26, 00:43

Need some context.

"Make the cut" = in a round robin with a proportion of the field qualifying for a final, to qualify for the final

"Cut and run" = cash out available tricks without taking some available risks for extras

Probably loads of other situations.



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Posted 2014-April-26, 01:55

For anyone who can remember a time before computer-dealt boards, you cut the cards after you shuffle and before you deal them.
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Posted 2014-April-26, 02:45

A lot of spades players would refer to ruffing as cutting. "Sorry p, I should have cut that club at trick 2, but I thought you had the queen."
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Posted 2014-April-26, 02:48

It's an incorrect way to refer to ruffing by non-natives. In Romanian, the two verbs coincide and I'm pretty sure it's not the only language.
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Posted 2014-April-26, 03:22

Cut = "schneiden" - to finesse.
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Posted 2014-April-26, 07:09

Same in Hebrew gwnn.
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