Bridge Secrets: Don’t miss a trick
When you open this little book, the state secrets of the game of bridge lie in your hands. They cover everything you need to know to go from being a bridge beginner to an international mastermind!The book is split into short, concise and easy-to-follow tips that will help to improve all aspects of your game and strategy. They reveal how to play a good defensive hand, how to devise a bidding system, what you can read from an opponent’s play, plus lots more.The beautifully decorated pages and luxury pocket style make this book something a little bit special. With it by your side you’ll always come up trumps!
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First Edition 2012
Second Edition 2017
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eBook Edition © June 2017 ISBN 9780008250485
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Author: Julian Pottage
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Contents
Follow with the Lowest of a Sequence
Fourth Highest of Your Longest and Strongest
Low-Level Doubles are for Takeout
Signal Attitude on Partnerâs Lead
Takeout Doubles Show the Unbid Suits
New Suit at the Three Level is Forcing
A Reverse Shows Strength and Shape
Add Three Points when Protecting
Give Partner 8 Points if the Opponents Pre-Empt
Six Cards for a Two-Level Overcall
Bridge is a game for four players using a standard pack of 52 cards. The four players form two partnerships. The players usually sit around a square table so that nobody can see another playerâs cards. Each player starts with 13 cards. The action takes place in two phases, bidding and play.
The play is very similar to whist. The players each contribute one card to form a trick. If there is a trump in the trick, the player who played the highest trump wins the trick. If there are no-trumps in the trick, the highest card in the suit led wins the trick. The player who wins one trick leads to the next trick. Players have an obligation to follow suit if they can.
The important difference in the play from whist is that one player, the dummy, takes no active part in the play. That playerâs partner, the declarer, controls all 26 cards held by the partnership. The dummy hand is visible to all four players.
Before the play comes the bidding. The players vie to choose the trump suit (or not to have a trump suit) and to suggest how many tricks they are going to make. As there are 13 tricks, you need to make at least seven tricks in order to win more than the other side. The minimum number of tricks you can contract to make is therefore seven. This means that bidding numbers disregard the first six tricks: a bid of âoneâ is a statement that you can make seven tricks, a bid of âtwoâ is saying you can make eight tricks and so on.
