Ask Jerry Helms
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• 7 January, 2016
Dear Jerry, Our convention card is clearly marked “weak jump overcalls.” Yesterday, the auction proceeded:
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• 7 January, 2016Dear Jerry, Our convention card is clearly marked “weak jump overcalls.” Yesterday, the auction proceeded:
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• 7 January, 2016It’s easy to falsecard by playing a card declarer already knows you hold; it’s harder to play a card when its location is not yet known (but soon will be ).
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• 7 January, 2016When you, declarer, lead a card towards the dummy, both defenders can see the card you have played and dummy’s holding.
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• 7 January, 2016Sixty years ago, the auction bridge writer would show how declarer could count the whole hand when a deuce was opened against his notrump contract.
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• 7 January, 2016But Mr. Pigeon is wont to make these thoughtless plays from time-to-time, which is at other reason why he loses at bridge.
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• 7 January, 2016Mr. Pigeon found himself quite suddenly in a game contract on board 11 at the Tuesday night duplicate, and when he saw the dummy, he was certain that the hand would play like a “pianola”.
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• 7 January, 2016The two teams that finished first and second in the 2011 English Premier League met in the final of the 2011 Gold Cup, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious team competition.