Significados de high cards en inglés

I had all these high cards and no way to use them.

My only high cards were a king and two jacks.

But they'd held the high cards, and he hadn't.

All were high cards, not one lower than a ten, yet with no two alike.

I'll show you part of my hand-justremember that I'm holding back my high cards.

The average holding of high cards is one Ace, one King, one Queen, and one Knave.

By this is meant not only the absence of high cards, but also the absence of length.

I had more than enough high cards.

The combination of high cards above mentioned, however, is not in itself sufficient to justify a suit declaration.

Number-showing leads in high cards, so advantageous in Whist, are absolutely unimportant in Auction, and only complicate the situation.

Or, you go for speed, trying to get to the mayhem so you can force the high cards to lose.

Her ruin, Mr. Reginald Falcon, was dismissed from his club, for marking high cards on the back with his nail.

I had twenty points just counting my high cards, and then three more points for my singleton diamond and doubleton club.

A singleton, if he be short in Trumps, is probably his best lead; his second choice should be high cards in sequence.

Under such circumstances, a player should always remember that his partner has counted upon him for a certain percentage of high cards.

But they have a count value of minus one each because as high cards are depleted from the game, player advantage goes down.