With this hand, Graeme illustrates how helpful fourth suit forcing can be when we know we want the auction to continue but we're not yet able to decide our best contract.
After an incredible auction, we find ourselves in slam with what looks like two unavoidable club losers. Luckily we have our resident magician, er... bridge teacher to make one of those losers disappear!
We received a touching email from one of Pam's students. I imagine it expresses a feeling all of us learning how to play bridge can relate to. Please join us for a short conversation with Pam about how bridge learners can find the courage to start playing with others.
Ever feel good about how you played a hand until you see how many others found an extra trick somewhere?
Pam Livingston played this hand recently against the robots on BBO. Her (robot) partner bid clubs twice but left her in 3NT. West is about to lay down their opening lead. What would you expect North to have?
When trumps behave, we make a lot of our contracts but when trumps break badly, how many times do we go off and blame our bad luck?
Teacher Yaniv Vax join us for a video lesson on the steps we can use to help us playing suit contracts.
Jack will introduce the bidding where you decide which suit will be trumps or whether to play without trumps. We then play out the cards.
Can you find a way to combine ruffing in the short hand with drawing trumps? It is possible to do both in one hand!
An introduction to the wonderful game of bridge. We will play some Whist first and then move onto Bridge, concentrating on the second part of the game where all four players play out their cards.