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Please tell us your favourite bridge tip for DECLARER PLAY here and perhaps explain it there:
http://forums.bridge...showtopic=10445

[TheoKole]

When declaring, try and make a complete plan for your contract, but don't be stubborn about it, always be open to the possibility of changing it in light of new circumstances.

Theo

[TheoKole]

Never give up, even if you can see the contract is hopeless...

Strange things can happen sometimes...

Theo

[Fluffy]

Winners and losers do not always add up to 13

[hrothgar]

Here's my all time favorite (gleefully stolen from Zia (???) in the aforementioned Bols book of Bridge tips): "If they don't cover the honor, they don't have the honor"

Assume that you are facing a 2 way finesse for a Queen
AJT8 opposite K973 or some such

You don't have an end-play available. You don't have any good information about vacant spaces.

Run the Jack.
If the Jack gets covered, you're home free.
If the Jack doesn't get cover, rise with the King and run the 9 the other way.

This has LONG been a consistant winner for me...

[helene_t]

I'm happy to hear that from you, Richard, since I was always afraid of being accused of disrespect for the opps when using that trick

But I think the tip is from Bob Hamman. I might be wrong.

[Winstonm]

Give the opponents every opportunity to play badly.

Left to their own devices, the opponents usually play all too well, so it helps to give them a chance to err.

Scoring: IMP

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In a team game, you overcome West's 4H bid to reach a borderline spade slam.
West leads the heart King.

The contract depends on losing only 1 spade trick. West rates to be short in spades so at trick 2 lead the jack of spades from dummy, intending to place Ace and another if East does not cover; however, East cannot see all the cards so he will be under a lot of pressure to make the right play when holding K108 or Q108 or KQ8. If he covers, you hold your spade losers to 1 any time West holds a singleton honor by entering dummy and leading a second spade toward your 9.

Winston

[Al_U_Card]

Always finesse with the lowest card you can afford.

[han]

hrothgar, on Oct 6 2005, 07:40 AM, said:

Here's my all time favorite (gleefully stolen from Zia (???) in the aforementioned Bols book of Bridge tips): "If they don't cover the honor, they don't have the honor"

Assume that you are facing a 2 way finesse for a Queen
AJT8 opposite K973 or some such

You don't have an end-play available. You don't have any good information about vacant spaces.

Run the Jack.
If the Jack gets covered, you're home free.
If the Jack doesn't get cover, rise with the King and run the 9 the other way.

This has LONG been a consistant winner for me...

I did this once against one of the best card player in the Detroit area. She ducked smoothly and I played the king. When I played low back RHO showed out, and then I noticed that dummy started with Kxxx, not K9xx. Ouch!