This week we close out our hand evaluation collection by looking at a method for evaluating highly distributional hands: Losing Trick Count. Specifically, we focus on Losers and Covers.

This week we look at how fitting honors improve the playing strength of a hand and how wasted values make it extremely difficult for our side to get rid of our losers.

Here we look at how we evaluate our hand and keep re-evaluating as the auction continues.

Here we continue our hand re-evaluation process by looking at how we make use of information about the opponents’ hands.

The week we look at how we re-evaluate our hand after partner opens the bidding.

We look at modern methods of evaluating our hand before the auction begins.