Play A Game Of Bridge
Tuesday May 12
New to bridge? I'll walk you through your very first hand — no experience needed. In a few minutes you'll learn the four key things every bridge player needs to know: how tricks work, what trumps are, how the auction decides the trump suit, and how to play out a hand as declarer. By the end, you'll know enough to play your first real hand of bridge.
Playing each suit the optimum way will win you a lot of extra tricks in bridge. Today we're looking at AJ9x opposite xxxx.
If you're happy playing in a 4-3 trump fit sometimes then you can use Stayman with weak hands.
With cue bidding you can pinpoint exactly which aces, kings, voids and singletons your side has without relying on just asking for aces.
What is North doing, passing twice and then doubling? It's a balancing double. North has worked out that the points must be evenly spread and he'd rather not defend at the 2 level!
