This Week in Bridge Practice Hands
Advanced Card Play: The Idle Fifth (Set 5 of 9)
When declaring a hand, we often run a long suit of winners and one or both of our opponents run out of cards in that suit. This forces our opponents to discard from another suit, which gives us an opportunity to learn more about the opponent’s hand – there are many inferences available for us based on which suits they choose to discard, and which suits they avoid. Let’s take a moment to place ourselves in “the opponent’s shoes” and see how understanding their difficulties can help us to better “read” an opponent’s discards. Card Reading skills are an important part of all parts of card play and something that we should all spend time working to improve.
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