A balance is a bid which must be made to prevent the opponents from taking the contract. For example, after the sequence: 1â  - Pass - 2â  - Pass-Pass) ? this last person has a choice between passing (and hence letting the opponents play 2â ) and bidding (called balancing in this situation).
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Slick Rick went to jail because he shot a bystander and hired his cousin as a bodyguard and then shot another person by the name of Walter. 9 people found this useful.
Crime: Second-Degree murder, Two Counts of Attempted Murder, Assault, Illegal Use of a Firearm, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon. Verdict: Guilty. Sentence: Served five years at Rikers Island in New York. The trouble started when the flashy, English-born Slick Rick hired his cousin, Jamaican-born Mark Plummer, as a bodyguard. But soon, his bodyguard tried to extort him. Rick fired him, and Plummer responded by sending some of his friends to rob the rapper. Rick refused; they threatened to kill him and his family.