This Week in Bridge Practice Hands
Advanced Card Play: Threat Cards (Set 8 of 9)
When declaring a hand, especially in a notrump contract, honor cards are a simple way to produce winners. With experience, we come to recognize that a long suit, particularly a long, strong one, can be another valuable source of tricks. Other cards can become winners as well. These other cards can grow up into winners in a variety of ways. They may not become tricks immediately, but as the play progresses, these cards become more relevant and pose a greater danger to the defense. We refer to these cards as threat cards, because they are threatening to turn into winners! The opponents must hold on to their cards in these suits (guard these suits) in order to prevent our threat cards from becoming winners. Let’s see how threat cards work and how we can make use of them to make us a more dangerous declarer.
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