When the opponents reach game without appearing to have the necessary high cards, they often have distributional features to compensate and hope to score tricks with ruffs.
Stage magicians are fond of saying "The hand is quicker than the eye," but what they really mean is that the hand is quicker than an eye that's looking in the wrong direction.
Jeff Meckstroth, with characteristic opportunism, took advantage of a couple of harmless-looking defensive slips by his opponents to bring in a seemingly hopeless four heart contract.
Failure to establish dummy's long suit is a common error on the part of declarers. Many a five card suit was born to blush unseen merely because it contained no high cards.
Now we turn to a variant of cheating which is peculiar to bridge it is called coffeehousing and gets its name from the Old English pubs and coffeehouses where....
