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Tuesday Tips for Bridge Players

Commit no Crime when your side has a great fit

Consider the bidding when choosing your lead in a bridge game. BUT never underlead an ace. Unless you can make magic!

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Long and (s)low is the bridge game way to go

Consider the bidding when choosing your lead in a bridge game. BUT never underlead an ace. Unless you can make magic!

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Set your trap with the magic 8, but go high with 9.

When you are missing key cards in a suit, strive to ONLY commit your desired winner AFTER one of your opponents has playing their card.

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Bridge games feel really great when your only point wins

Promoting a trick for your partner when they have only one point feels great. bridge point: Trump promotion as a defender

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Fortune comes when you get technical

When you are likely to end up defending , bid to help partner lead to your values. When you declare, never give up.

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Are your defenders showing off their diamonds?

The bidding reveals secrets that will help declarer reveal cards. Look to the opponent’s bidding and card play to help with decision making.

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Routine auction sets scene for a better bridge discard

A Bridge Declarer tip – Discards do not always need to be made immediately.

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Declare your Success and duck for Great Clubs

Do you approach your declarer play in slam the same way you approach every declaring decision? Several of the new players I supervise each week, feel a panic at the thought of losing tricks. Somewhere along their early journey into…

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Break the barrier with high points and win more

Practice your bridge reversing here with another IBEScore Tuesday tip for bridge game players.

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Can you wax lyric about your love of bridge?

Could you smoothly and succinctly to this question on demand? – “So what is bridge?” Recently I was as a passenger in a car, journeying through the countryside in Puglia, Italy. My traveling companion asked me to tell him what…

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