Deberts

Main game rules

Two players play in deberts according to the agreed stake per party. The deck consists of 32 cards, from 7 to an Ace.

There are the following stages in the game:

1. Cards deal, trump declaration, cards additional deal;
2. Combinations declaration;
3. Draw. (The result of each draw is summed to a total sum of the gained points);
4. Results calculation.

Cards cost:

Combinations cost and ranking

The sequence of three or four cards of one suit is considered as a combination in deberts. More than four cards are not considered as a combination.

Relative ranking of combinations (by increase):

• Berts is higher than Terts.
• If two combinations are equal on length than the combination beginning with the highest card is the highest combination.
• If two combinations are equal on length and begin with a card of one rank than the trump combination is considered to be the highest one.
• If two combinations are equal on length, begin with identical cards and both are not trump than the combination declared the first is considered to be the highest combination.

Rules of the definition of combinations ranking:

• If only one player has a combination than he names this combination, shows it and writes points for it.
• If both players have combinations than they find out whose combination is higher naming their combinations. (If the second player’s combination is lower than he can not declare it). The first player writes points for the named combination.
• If both players’ combinations are of identical length then the bidding starts. A player having a combination of the similar length says «rank». The first player names his highest card in the combination. If the second player’s combination is higher then he shows his highest card and writes points to himself, if lower then the first player writes points to himself.

Points for the gained combinations are recorded in a case if a player took at least one trick.

For sequences:

The cards ranking at formation of combinations (including a trump suit): A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7.

The game is usually up to a certain number of points. The game is considered to be finished when a player declares that he gained the agreed quantity of points.

Players can agree to play with «Mars», with «stake increase» (with dubling (dave)) or with Mars and stake increase simultaneously. In these cases the winning (and loss) can increase comparing with the initial stake.

The game in deberts with doubling

In the game beginning - the right to declare the stake increase has both players. If a player offers to increase the stake then the second player has a choice: to take the increase and in this case the game proceeds with the increased stake. Or to refuse and in this case the game is considered to be the lost one basing on the old (before the offered increase) stake. If a player accepted the stake increase then the right of the next stake increase passes to him.

At his time - if a player is offered to take any game action, for example, to lead, to place a card, to declare a combination, to say «rank» showing the combination rank at the moment of the final combination show (or combinations) – he has the right to offer to increase the stake.

Between deals - when one deal is counted but cards are not dealt for the following deal. In this situation in the beginning a player who won the previous deal, can offer to increase the stake (if he has this right), and then his opponent can do this (if he has this right).

Game in deberts with «Mars»

If a player lost and he gained less than half of points then his loss is doubled.