At Spadester.com you can play online Spades with thousands of real players from all over the world. Spadester has the best Spades software on the internet with an interactive Lobby and the three most popular Spades variations (individual, cut throat or partnership), in which you can play for fun or for Real Money and start earning serious cash based on your skills.
Spadester prioritizes building long-lasting relationships with our players. Players can play for fun or for Real Money the choice is theirs and there is no obligation. We offer the highest levels of security and customer care. The Spadester site features a great design, constant promotional offers, LIVE support and more!
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Spadester Lobby
In the Spadester lobby players can check the ranking of other players before they decide to join a table, learn about current promotions and get updated on what's hot and happening on our site. It's a wonder how with so many incredible features Spadester remains user friendly to even the most novice computer users.
Spadester showers their players with incredible promotional offers ensuring that they know they are number one and with new featured being added all the time, Spades players keep coming back for more.
To reassure players that Spadester's software is not different in the Real Money mode and the fun money mode, they add a $4 bonus to every new player's Real Money account just for registering.
Spadester Object
The object of spades is to reach a pre-determined score; players (or partnerships) score by collecting the exact amount of tricks that you (or your partnership) bid.
Spadester Terms
The deck:
A standard 52-card deck is used. Spades is the highest suit, followed by hearts, diamonds, and clubs. Within each suit, Aces rank highest, followed by K, Q, J, 10, ..., 3, 2.
The deal, the bid, and the play :
An equal number of cards from a standard 52-card deck are dealt to the players, with any odd cards set aside for that hand. Players in turn announce the number of tricks that they will take for that hand. Once all players have bid, the player to the left of the dealer begins play by leading any non-spade. Players in turn must follow suit of they are able, and may play any card if unable to follow suit. The highest ranking card of the led suit wins the trick unless a spade is played (due to the fact that a player did not have the led suit and decided to play a spade on that trick), in which case the highest ranking spade wins the trick. The player that took the last trick plays the first card of the next trick. A player may not lead a spade until such time as a spade is played on a previous trick. Play continues in this manner until all cards are played from each player's hand.
Scoring :
Players score 10 points for each trick that they bid and made, and score an additional 1 point for any additional tricks that they made over their bid. Players lose 10 point for each bid trick if they do not take the number of tricks that they bid. For example, a player that bids 3 tricks would score 30 if they took exactly 3 tricks, 32 if they took 5 tricks, and -30 if they took any number of tricks less than 3. Beware of making too many tricks over the number that you bid! If a player, of the course of a game, reaches 10 additional tricks, then that player loses 100 points!
Scores are totaled at the conclusion of each hand, and the game is won by the player (or partnership) that reaches the pre-determined score (usually 200 or 500).
When playing online spades (for money) at most of the skill games sites, your ranking will fluctuate as you play. All players start with the same ranking when they first register, and their ranking increases with each win and decreases with each loss. A word of caution -- be wary of playing a newly-registered player for large stakes, as the player could very well be an expert whose ranking does not yet reflect their skill (since they have played only a very few games on the site).
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