Keep What Partner Can’t by Julian Pottage
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• 16 January, 2016
Having to make a discard can be hard. Throwing the wrong thing may give declarer an extra winner. If you …
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• 16 January, 2016Having to make a discard can be hard. Throwing the wrong thing may give declarer an extra winner. If you …
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• 5 January, 2016A Multi 2 diamonds opening bid shows either a weak hand with a long major or some strong hand. The weak hand with…
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• 12 December, 2015Often the best way to play a suit is not to play it yourself but to let the other side lead it. With A-J-x facing K-10-x you have a two-way guess
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• 5 December, 2015If you have ever wondered how good players manage to get their guesses right rather more than half the time, now you know. They do not play blindly but use the clues from the bidding.
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• 26 November, 2015When you first learned bridge or whist, you probably took every chance you could to win a trick.
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• 24 November, 2015Assessing a hand by counting four points for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen and one for a jack should be the start of how you look at it rather than the end.
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• 22 November, 2015There are two main reasons why it is much better to check on aces or key cards with 4NT than with 4 clubs.
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• 16 November, 2015The official definition of a freak hand varies. Some say any hand with a void or two singletons. Others say …
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• 12 November, 2015If you open at the three level or higher, you make life harder for the opposition than you do opening at the one level.
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• 10 November, 2015False preference is when partner bids two suits and you return to the first suit even though you have a card more in his second suit.