You will often want to re-use a format, and placing them in one place lets you find out which formats are available. T962 the previous day at a Swiss Teams event. This turns out well for you on this deal, because at the other table, the opponents played in three spades, down 1. Afterwards, you wonder if you really made the right decision. Your intuition tells you that it was the right choice, but you realize there are risks in both passing and bidding, and you know that intuition is very bad at assessing levels of risk.
Deal can help.
You can now peruse the output to see whether it was a good idea or a bad idea to pass. As with the formatting, we can also do our deck-stacking in our script. Remember, the main expression is responsible for evaluating the deals after Deal finishes dealing the hands. We obviously want the stacking instruction to occur before dealing occurs, so the stacking command must be outside the main evaluation. Obviously, there are also routines called hearts , diamonds , and clubs which count their respective suits.