Premium\/ULTRA – Click here to view Part\u00a03 of the video commentary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThrow-in plays on a side suit is powerful magic, but can it work on a trump suit, too?\u00a0 And how about making non-working honors into a repeated finesse?\u00a0 If you’re ready to become a magician, read on and view our commentary…<\/strong><\/p>\nIntroduction – Recap:<\/strong><\/p>\nGeneral methods to win extra tricks using avoidance, elimination and end plays:<\/strong><\/p>\n– Temporarily ducking a winning trick.<\/strong><\/p>\n– Choose when to throw opponents into the lead: finesses, ruffs and sluffs, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n– Allow non-dangerous opponent into the lead.<\/strong><\/p>\nReview – Promotion:<\/strong><\/p>\n– Holding J x x and Q x x, strip side suits so opponent must either lead to this holding or give you a ruff in one hand and a sluff in the other hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n– Holding A J x and K 10 x, again strip side suits so opponent must lead to this holding, eliminating the need to guess a two-way finesse.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBridge players love repeated finesses with holdings like A J 10 and x x x.<\/strong><\/div>\nHowever with split honors like A x x and J 10 x, the odds of making 2 tricks is reduced to 10 percent.\u00a0 However, using an end play technique the odds return to 76 percent since the opponents must lead to your suit.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Similarly, on the holding x x opposite K x, the odds of making 1 trick goes up from 50 percent to 100 percent when the hand to the left of the King must lead the suit.\u00a0 Other hand patterns follow the same tactic and percentage, such as <\/strong>holding 10 x x and K x x.<\/strong><\/div>\nPlease login or register to view this content.<\/h3>\nPlease login or register to view this content.
\n\u00a0<\/strong>Please login or register to view this content.<\/p>\nHappy Bridge Trails and Tales,<\/strong><\/p>\nBridgeHands<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"End Plays in Contract and Duplicate Bridge JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Online Surveys by Constant Contact.In\u00a0our previous episode, we\u00a0learned side suit split “Quackers” (Queen-Jack) can be\u00a0promoted to\u00a0earn an much needed trick.\u00a0\u00a0Also, it’s always nice to induce the opponents to help us so we do not have to guess a two-way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}