| See Your Results From This Weeks Bridge |
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1. Click on "Members area and Results" and click on "Results"
2. Click "Results from this weeks play"
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| This Weeks Winners .... |
♥ ♠- CONGRATULATIONS TO -♠ ♥
Annie and Barbara with a stunning 65%
Special mention for bidding and making Grand slams to
Jane and Stephanie plus Alasdair and Pat
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| Hand of the Week! |
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Planning your play: Setting up your long Suit in No Trump Contracts, and maintaining entries
Sound Bridge play dictates that you should always cash your winners in a suit on the shorter side first to ensure you do not block the suit later on. But on occasions this maxim needs to be resisted when other considerations need addressing. Here is a hand that turned up in the beginners session on the 15 December 2025. North had ended up in a very dubious 3 NT contract, with South having begun the bidding with their Spade suit. East had led a low Heart (fourth highest). Plan the play. Does it matter which hand you win the first trick in?
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Having won the first trick, it is important to immediately play the Diamond suit to drive out the opponents Ace and thereby win 6 Diamond tricks, which together with the 3 Heart winners and either an eventual Club or Spade trick giving you 10 tricks for a score of +630. What could possibly go wrong?
If you play with the protocol of cashing the winner in the short suit - and allow the Heart lead to run round to the winning Queen, then when you run the Diamonds to draw out the Ace, a wily West will hold up that card for 1 round. This means that you have no entry back into North's hand to cash the remaining Diamond winners. You would win 1 Diamond 3 Hearts 1 (or 2) Spades and 1 Club, for 2 or 3 down minus 200 - 300
The correct play is to win the first trick in Dummy with the Ace of Hearts and then play on the Diamonds. West holds the Ace up for 1 round but cannot stop you re-entering North via the Queen of Hearts to secure the remaining Diamond winners. Contract made!
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| **Important News!** |
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Improvers sessions and tuition for beginners recommences Monday 5 January 2026 at the Parkhouse Centre. Improvers sessions begins at 2:00 pm. These sessions will focus on consolidating what we have been covering so far, with a once a monthly input of new learning about bidding, play or planning. The beginners tuition will commence at 2:00pm or at 2:45 pm on the occasions where the improvers have a learning session. Cost is the standard table money of £3 per person. See you there!!
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