| Shadowfax is located at 679 Bartley Road, Chester NJ 07930 |
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| SHADOWFAX SCHEDULE |
Tues 9:30 lesson, 10 a.m. 0-999 game
... followed by a postgame discussion of hands played that morning
Wed & Fri 10 a.m. Open games (BYO lunch!)
regular game card fees are $10 per person
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Shadowfax will host North American Pair (NAP) Qualifying Games
Friday 07/11 & Friday 07/25
NAP bonus awards are 50% RED!
Shadowfax games on Tuesday 07/22 & Wednesday 07/23 will award 25% Silver!
note: card fees for these special games are $11
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| ... and other upcoming Special Events |
July 18-20 - NJBL Sectional, Edison NJ - 100% Silver MPs!
July 23 - Aug 03 - Summer NABC, Philadelphia PA
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| TUESDAY LESSON (07/08/25) - Listen to the Auction! |
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South opens 1S and (after North responds 1NT) should jump to 3H to show his second suit AND extra values. This only guarantees a 5S-4H hand but encourages North to continue to game with anything but a minimum. NS should continue to game in a major, but will likely go down against an alert defense.
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On the auction shown, North "hears" South describe his 5-5 majors and leaves South in the better (8-card) fit.
West can lead passively, and wait for the tricks to come to him. But if he has listened to the auction, he should understand North has very few (2 or less) Spades - he didn't support his partner's first bid suit. That should tell him it is unlikely he will win many Spade tricks if Dummy is trumping them. In order to cash those winners, he needs to eliminate or reduce Dummy's trump. He should lead the HA and another, reducing Dummy to a single trump. This leaves Declarer with 3 (or 4) Spade losers and nowhere to discard them. The contract will go down.
When the opponents wind up in their second suit, leading trump is often a good option.
BTW, most of our NS pairs were playing in Spades or NT. |
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| Review and Replay Our Lesson Hands! |
Did you know many of our Tuesday Lesson Hands are available at the Lessons from the Past link?
You can review the lesson, read helpful analysis, or even replay these hands - simply click the Play It Again button!
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| Looking for ways to improve your game? --- Our website can help! |
Our website provides analysis (by individual and pair) about sessions played at Shadowfax. Color-coding of the hand-by-hand results makes it easy to identify the boards on which your partnership scored well ^ (or didn't ^).
To learn how to use these and other features of our website to improve your game, just ask - we want our members to use all the bells&whistles on our website!
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