Knowing how to ask yourselves the right questions and then answer them is the key to improve your chances on any bridge hand, be it as declarer or as defender.
I’ll give you a hand below, and a series of questions – like a riddle! Try to answer these questions by yourself. Then look at the answers, which will be presented together with the full deal.
At the end we’ll summarize a few important “Things to remember” for each problem. Enjoy!
Dealer South, All Vulnerable
Against 3NT you lead the ♣3. Your partner played the ♣J and declarer won with the ♣A, then played the ♦Q, overtaking in dummy when you played low. He continued with the ♦J, discarding the ♣4 from his hand, and you won with the ♦A.
You and your partner are playing standard carding. To show attitude, a high card encourages the suit, and a low card discourages. To show count, playing a high card followed by a low one shows an even number of cards in that suit, while low-high shows odd number of cards.
- Where is the ♣K?
- Where is the ♣10?
- What is declarer’s distribution?
- Which card you must hope partner has in order to set 3NT?
- Which card should you play next?
Comments
5 responses to “Seeing through cards #4”
Great column. I see #1 and #2 what happened to #3?
Bidding, Declaring, Defensing… all in one article!
Thank You!!
Thanks for the column. North should be left opponent. It is hard to follow when North is put as right opponent in the picture.
Oren you are amazing!
These are great!