Where you might see Bill Gates sitting across the table from Omar Sharif. Where a player who is blind uses braille cards. The object of the game is for your pair to accumulate more points than the other pair. Players bid for the minimum number of tricks they hope to win, then play their hands to accomplish their goal, with the opposite partnership working to defeat them. There are four players in two fixed partnerships.
Partners sit facing each other.
It is traditional to refer to the players according to their position at the table as North, East, South and West, so North and South are partners playing against East and West. The game is played clockwise. A standard 52-card deck is used. The dealer then gives the deck to his right hand opponent for a cut. The dealer deals out all the cards one at a time so that each player has 13.