Yearly Archives: 2016

Things had not been going well for Trump Coup Tommy. True, he and his partners had held most of the cards throughout the evening's rubber bridge, but

A scissors coup is a fancy declarer play that "cuts" the defense's communications, with the goal of preventing a dangerous opponent from gaining the lead.

One of the most important elements of any successful partnership is bidding discipline.

Dear Jerry, Our convention card is clearly marked "weak jump overcalls." Yesterday, the auction proceeded:

It'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 ).

When you, declarer, lead a card towards the dummy, both defenders can see the card you have played and dummy's holding.

But Mr. Pigeon is wont to make these thoughtless plays from time-to-time, which is at other reason why he loses at bridge.

Mr. 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".

The 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.

Time spent in the study of the fall of the cards and the probable distribution as revealed in the bidding and play frequently results in the making of contracts which to the superficial view appear beset with insuperable obstacles.