HeyJaredDavid Ezekiel
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Trump lead — when to use and when to avoid (opens the original)
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Today’s column is about opening leads, one of the most difficult parts of the game to get consistently right. There are certain rules that are easy to follow, such as “fourth best of your longest” against NT but for the most part the leads are determined predominantly by the bidding. Whole books have been written on the subject, but today I’m just going to concentrate on trump leads — when to use them and when not to. I’m a fan of trump leads, because for the most part I’m a fan of passive defen
Deep dive on defending against Bath coup (opens the original)
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I am using this summer series to hammer home a lot of the advice I’ve provided in prior columns — today I’m doing a deep dive into defending against the “Bath coup” in 3NT contracts, and after reading this you had better not ever get it wrong again as this represents the definitive work on the subject! You hold KQ1097 of hearts against 3NT — you lead the King, dummy has two small, and you are allowed to hold the trick — what next? Do you continue hoping partner holds the Ace or the Jack or do yo
Playing this combination that declarers will see many times (opens the original)
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This column continues the instructional summer series, and may well turn out to be the most boring column I’ve ever written and probably the most boring you’ve ever read. But that does not excuse you from reading it – it’s like homework, hate it as much as you want, but you have to get it done. It is to do with declarer play and how one plays the combination of QJ32 opposite A654 – a combination that will come up thousands of times in your bridge journey, often in the trump suit. Players can’t r
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