It is not uncommon for some of the players to bring new decks as gifts to save the host the trouble of not having a good deck. Once the game starts, everybody's concentration is focused on what seems to be a very deep problem. Once a round is active, jokes are not allowed, yet when a round ends, sexual joke improvisation is the best pastime, especially between the elderly players. They will laugh for a while, until the new deal of hands reaches the players. Mistakes on timing or wrong bidding, are not allowed.
Severe repercussions await the inconsistent players.
They may be banned for the next game, or until they manage to learn to concentrate better that Geller. Various futuristic conclusions pertaining to player's intelligence or general interacting abilities are being drawn. The players may talk on the phone for hours afterwards, remarking on how bad some players are, or how stupid. The thing that I am missing here, is that I see nobody consistently winning, so I fail to see the joke of 'the bad player'. They were sitting in the living room and I was sitting on my desk, fiddling around with my Performa.