English Rules For The Card Game Belote

Question

There is a card game I used to play which in school in the Middle East which I understand if based on a French game called Belote.

Does anyone know of an English set of rules for this game?

The game involves 4 players in two teams, only uses the top 7 cards of each suite (A,K,Q,J,10,9,8,7).

Each turn starts with a bidding process for the top card it's either chosen to be the trump suite or not.

Scoring is different for the Trump suite as it the order precedence of the cards, (J,9,A,10,K,Q,8,7) Vs (A,10,K,Q,J,9,8,7).

Each round consists of a player playing one card into the pile, the team with the highest value card wins that round.

There are also sets of cards like three/four/five in a row or 4 of a kind that are worth bonus points.

I'm looking for a concise set of rules in English for this game, preferably the Arabic variant, if not the French original.

Answer 1

It looks like I misspelt the name of the game. It's actually Belut or Belote

I've found a set of rules here:

http://www.pagat.com/jass/belote.html

The only difference in rules to what I'm used to that I can see from a glance is that 4 Aces is worth 400 points.

Answer 2

You can find here : http://en.beloteenligne.com/ some additionnal information.

The Belote rules seems so easy, but there were so much strategy going on. In France, they prefer a lot Belote to Poker. This game is known because in every family (and at school) they play belote on Sunday after the meal.