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).
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For Freeway Rick, as the street knows him, may be the most ironic casualty of the disastrous war against drugs  although he was incarcerated for conspiracy to distribute vast quantities of cocaine, his case levels that same charge at his jailors, the federal government.