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  • Suit Combo Quiz #1

    How familiar are you with percentage plays? Maximize the expected number of tricks possible, based on the combination of cards your partnership holds in a given suit. Assume that you have enough entries to either hand to play the cards as you wish. What card will you play, for each of the suit combinations below?…

  • Interview with a bridge player

    I’ve recently come back to reading Interview With A Vampire again, and I’ve spent the past couple of days stuck on the soundtrack for Queen Of The Damned for background noise. While these might have nothing to do with bridge, the title of the eternally great Rice-novel made me imagine an appropriate post for the…

  • Great BBO Vugraph Deals #93

    Marc Smith visits the concluding stages of the Alt New-Co, Heat 3 Over the past two weeks, we have seen the best of the action as the teams jockeyed for position. With seven of the ten matches completed, the standings in Group A are: MOSS 89.38 VPs DE BOTTON 82.37 RED DEVILS 71.17 DONNER 61.85…

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