Julian Foster’s hand commentary provides a good read every week. He picks up an interesting hand for commentary (sometimes from an SBC duplicate, sometimes from elsewhere). His column starts with a basic analysis of the hand then lists some key points to note as a quick summary to take away. It then ends with some more advanced points if you progress well with this laddered reading.
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- It’s a bidder’s game!
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 off. Today’s hand taken from … Continue reading - Endplays and sacrificing
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 then raise 2♥ to 4♥. … Continue reading - Care with entries
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 the auction will be Pass … Continue reading - Defending against a weak no-trump
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. So today we’ll look at … Continue reading - The delicate matter of unauthorised information
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 2♥ 2♠ 3♦ 4♠. Nothing … Continue reading
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