This Week in Bridge Practice Hands
Advanced Card Play: Smother Plays (Set 7 of 9)
When we look at a card combination where we are missing an honor, our thoughts usually turn to how we should play this suit for the best result. We generally focus on whether we should play “for the drop” of the missing honor or take a finesse. But in trying to avoid a loser in this suit, there is sometimes another line of play that we have at our disposal – the smother play. The smother play produces extra tricks by “dropping” a card in an unorthodox way.
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