two tierces the declarers have 154 points and the defenders have 144 points, both teams will get 15 MPs and it would be a narrow escape. When both teams have equal scores at the end of the round, the points are "hanging". What happens in this case is the following: the committed team doesn't add those points to their score, while the other team does. The remaining points (those that were not added by the committed team) "hang" over to the next round and they are given to the team that wins. A special valat (or capot) premium of 9 match points exists for not leaving a single trick for the opponents. Note, that this does not lift off the opponent's points from declaration. Valats are doubled at no trumps. If there is a valat in a doubled contract, the winning team's points are doubled. The first team to reach 151 in the global score is the winner, but the game cannot end while a valat takes place. French Belote This part describes the main differences between the classic French rules and the ones above. Dealing After the four players receive the first five cards, the remaining cards are left face down except the card on the top, which is turned face up. Bidding The biddings are made in two rounds. During the first round each player must either pass or accept the card face up. Doing so will set the cards of the same suit as the face up card as trumps. If every player passed, another round is made. The players can propose another card suit as trumps, but must take the face up card. As soon as a player has accepted the card, the remaining cards are dealt : 2 cards for the player who took the card 3 cards for the 3 other players Scoring To score the points for a game, the team of the player who accepted the face up card must score more than the other team. Otherwise, the other team wins all the points. Generally, this means a team needs to score at least 81 as there are a total of 162 points in the game. However, bonus points won from Belote or declarations might be taken into account. Belot Belot (commonly abbreviated as Bela, Armenian blot) is a 32-card game variant of Belote for two to four players. Traditionally it is