If you love to play Spades but are tired of losing your incredible lead on the last hand, you have got to buy the book:
“How NOT to Lose At Spades”

by author John Galt Strichman

After once again being dumb founded when one of my regular partners and I had once again lost on the last hand on what should have been a sure win in Internet Spades, my Spades Frustrations were elevated and I needed help figuring out why playing our hands and avoiding bags as much as possible were costing us so many last minute wins. So, being the Geek that I am, it was time to search, again, for Spades Help and I really hoped that I would find something different from the previously found online sites and videos that I had already used over and over. So, Maggie, The Frustrated Spades Loving Geek, went hunting for some fresh online help for Spades Tricks and Strategies, again.

Luckily, I finally tripped across a book actually written for SPADES Players and not a book written for Bridge Players that I could try and extrapolate into Spades Tricks and Strategies. Have found a great deal of info in the Bridge world that has helped my game but not enough. From my recent games, after I finally mastered (so I thought) how to “Bid my hand” turns out my team was still getting Bagged or Set…no matter how often I would “Bid My Hand!”

The more I played and observed games, the better I got. However, as I began to improve just could never get ranked to the next level or if I did, would get knocked back down very quickly. There are still many players much more skilled than I am in the Spades World of Spades Tricks and Strategies and they obviously have learned to master more Spades’ Skills than I have. My favorite partners and I are tired of being in total shock at the last minute of the last hand just to find another one of our sure wins has become a sure loss by just a trick or two or even worse by just a bag or two!

Even worse than losing with my favorite partners is losing while playing with partners I don’t really know and who unfortunately are not as understanding or as graceful as my regular partners with extra Bags and / or a Spades loss.

Unfortunately, if they have higher rankings than mine, they very often automatically assume they are better players than I am and often feel the need to berate me for playing what I would think was the proper play of my cards. Then there are those who claim to have played Spades for 40 years, so they often think and say that they are better than I am and feel the need to verbally abuse me for our loss when in reality they were making as many mistakes or more than I have.

Sadly, not everyone is nice and polite in the Internet Spades World and no matter how much you try and ignore the Tongue Lashings flying out during the games, no one likes to be called nasty four letter words, over and over. Sometimes it is the other teams bantering in a nasty tongue but sometimes it is another poor innocent who is hooked up with an abusive player and it hurts almost as much to watch the abuse as it is to get it. I will often ask the abusive partner the question “Why are you so mean to the one person in this game who can influence the outcome of your game as as much if not more than you can?” Translated: “If you are so smart, why are you acting so dumb?”

When these bullies have abused their partners to the point that they are too rattled to play or worse are too mad to even possibly let Big Bully get a win, the process I have Tagged “Revenge Spades” often goes into play and that includes the 13 bids by one player or the No Way Nil for the heck of it. For those of us who have a Spades addiction, but aren’t the best player at the table and are tired of being on the receiving end of the Bully abuse, having more Spades skills should help to curtail some of these bad situations because we will at least be more confident in our games, know it is the other guy who may be the one making the mistakes and have less of the last minute surprise losses.

So, back to my original story, after that last totally shocking loss,I knew that if I wanted to continue playing Internet Spades, and try and keep my sanity, and not feel like I was constantly making mistakes with my game and partners and actually truly enjoy playing the game and trusting my abilities, it was time to do something different and that enough was enough was enough….

It was time to either 1) Accept the constant defeat and give it up and just walk away from Internet Spades forever OR 2) It was time for me to give up on finding the solutions to my gaming issues in the sea of free Internet tips and tricks and invest in Spades Knowledge.

Since this time my search actually ended up with my best ever results because what I found, for the first time, was a Book about Spades written by a Top Spades Player to teach others how to be Better Spades Players. It didn’t take long for me to know that option number, make an affordable investment to gain true Spades playing, tips, tricks, strategies and knowledge to improve my Internet Spades playing skills and ultimately Spades Playing Score and Ranking, was the route I was probably going to go.

When I found the book titled: How NOT to Lose At Spades” written by John Galt Strichman, I did a little research on it before committing to my purchase. The more I reviewed John Galt Strichman’s website www.SpadesBook.com,
the more I knew I had found the right author, the right book and the Holy Grail of Spades info.

The more I read Mr. Strichman’s free tips and tricks, on his website that more obvious the clues were as to how great his book would be,
the more I knew that I was going to stick with my Spades addiction the more I knew I was on the verge of improving my skills,
the more excited I got about having more Spades playing skills,
the more I knew it was time for me to order John Galt Strichman’s book “How NOT to Lose At Spades” from his website www.SpadesBook.com

Within no time I knew that I had found a very affordable and much wanted early Birthday present for myself. The day I discovered that this book existed, I ordered it directly from the author’s website: www.SpadesBook.com and it arrived quickly with a personal dedication from the Author.

I’ve never been a real book reader but when this book arrived I could not put it down and had read the first fifty pages without taking a break for dinner or even going to sleep. Have not finished, yet, since I am re-reading the chapters that really address my known issues, but already my confidence has grown, my playing skills have improved and my ranking is climbing up and up.

Below is some info copied directly from Mr. Strichman’s website
(www.SpadesBook.com) for his book “How NOT to Lose At Spades”

When you are ready to purchase the true Game Changing Book, you can buy it directly from his site or via Amazon. One thing for sure, if you are a Spades Lover with a Spades Addiction you will be in Spades Heaven with the new tips, tricks and strategies from this well written, easy reading book by the author
John Galt Strichman.