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!
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?
Teacher Yaniv Vax join us for a video lesson on the steps we can use to help us playing suit contracts.
The bidding 1C - 4H - 6D - P; P - P is not an auction you see everyday! Everyone at this table made great choices to make this a very interesting hand.
The unusual 2NT bid is a popular convention but not a bid we have a chance to bid often. It’s very descriptive as we tell partner 10 of the 13 cards in our hand in one go. This allows us to figure out where we want to play fairly quickly and get in the opposition’s way when it’s right to.
Should I Run this Honour? When wondering whether to take a finesse by running an honour, check how many cards you have backing up your lower honours. The longer the sequence, the stronger the sequence: look for tens and nines in particular.
In this hand, both Acol and Standard players will find themselves as declarer in 3NT. When dummy comes down, we see we only have six sure winners. Anyone else start to worry at this point?
Adam gives us some general pointers for planning the play, including a handy acronym.