About Pollard, from BoardGameGeek:
Trick-taking game in which players must place both a bid for the number of tricks they expect to take and a wager which determines the how many points they will receive if they hit their target bid. The wager is made by discarding cards from a player's hand, meaning that players who wish to score big must play from abbreviated hands.
Pollard originally was published in the You Can Play These Games with Cards card game compendium.
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