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Threat -
A card which opponents must guard against by keeping holding in that suit,
otherwise the card will win a trick. Types of menace cards include:
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 K 10 x
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Q x x
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x x x
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A J x x
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Isolated Threat (Menace)- One card
menace, often an opponents' Queen - here West cannot afford to pitch a
Heart (declarer is uncertain which way to finesse on this hand)
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A x x
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K Q x
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x x x x
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x x x
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Two-card
Threat (Menace) -
Where an opponent holds both a winner and a threat card - again West
must not pitch a Spade in order to win 2 Spade tricks.
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x x x x
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A 10 x
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Q x x
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K J x
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Split Two Card
Menace (Threat) - A two card menace where the cards are in opposite hands - neither East
nor West can afford to pitch a Diamond when void in another suit.
Further, with these holdings it is unprofitable for either side to break
this suit.
Double Menace (Threat) - Holding a card threatening both opponents' (same
diagram)
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A J 10
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K Q x
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x x x x
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x x x
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Extended Two-card Menace (Threat)
- A two card menace with
adjoining cards in the suit that will be promoted into winners
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A K 9 x
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Q J 10 x
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x x
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x x x x
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Recessed Menace (Threat) -
Holding a threat card with two or more additional winning tricks
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x x x
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K x x
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A 10 x x
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Q J x
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Twin Entry Menace
Threat) - A hand containing a winner,
with the opposite hand containing a winner and a menace as well as small
card/s
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