Konter a Matt jack 1, 10 and 9 nothing. At the beginning of one game, the trump suit is fixed. Additionally, three cards are always trumps: the queens of spades Q, hearts Q and diamonds Q are always trumps. This is what gave the name to the game: the two queens of hearts Q and diamonds Q are the two Kontra trumps, the queen of spades Q is the “Matt”. As a consequence, in a match, depending on which suit is the trump, there are nine or eight trumps, four possibilities, the value of the cards is as follows (from highest to lowest,
Winner's curse to account for the winner's curse when bidding (an outcome that, according to the revenue equivalence theorem, need never occur). In a common value auction, the auctioned item is of roughly equal value to all bidders, but the bidders don't know the item's market value when they bid. Each player independently estimates the value of the item before bidding. The winner of an auction is the bidder who submits the highest bid. Since the auctioned item is worth roughly the same to all bidders, they are distinguished only by their respective estimates of the market value. The winner, then, is