Author Archives: Julian Foster

You may have heard players use this expression. It’s referring to the fact that so often at bridge when you have a choice of passing or taking a risk and bidding – it’s the bidding choice that tends to pay … Continue reading →

Quite a number of North South pairs played 4♥ on today’s hand. That’s pretty reasonable – they have a 4-4 fit and a combined 27 points. For many pairs South will have opened a strong 1NT, North will stayman and … Continue reading →

To make a contract there is usually a key suit you need to play on. But sometimes there are other considerations as well. Today’s hand taken from a recent Sydney Bridge Club duplicate is an example. The normal start to … Continue reading →

Recently I played in a session where the weak no-trump opening that we play (11-14 balanced) came up quite a lot. It was evident that many pairs, clearly not used to it, had no idea how to defend against it. … Continue reading →

The auction on today’s hand from an online pairs session might look quite strange but we’ll get to what happened and what the implications might be. The auction went 1NT (11-14) Pass Pass 2♦. After that North South bid uncontested … Continue reading →