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Hand #1 is so delightful - play it right and get an overtrick. 😎

It’s very difficult hand on 13.08 minutes, But You sort it 😅 Thanks Tony! You are a champions 🎉

Passing 1S doubled actually works out on that layout as you beat it two for 500 points for a better score than 3NT. On a spade lead by North winning the ace and returning another spade, declarer only gets 5 spade tricks and can’t set up their club and doesn’t have entries to set up and heart or diamond in dummy or a spade to ruff with in dummy. Declarer loses a spade 2 hearts 2 diamonds and 3 clubs

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If the opener's 2C bid shows 23+ points, why do we need 8+ points for a positive game force response. Would 5+ points not suffice?

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Dear Tony, thank you so much. Really helpful. Look forward to the next one.

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Please do some more misfit examples

To the question at the end, you’re throwing away the clubs in the first hand because you already have enough winners in the other suits, so you don’t need to create any more winners. In the second hand, you don’t have enough winners in the other suits, so you must lose a club in order to complete the contract.

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Thanks teacher, even I have a break from bridge new year, I still keep watching, learning from your video You explain very well 🎉 many thanks 🙏

The crucial stage in these is loosing early before you’ve cashed winners in other suits. Keep controls in the other suits before you lose the lead. This excellent video expands and explains Andrew Robson’s claim that “You’ve got to loose tricks in order to make tricks!”

The hand with west having 17pts and bidding over a weak 2 spades, why not control bid 3spades to show a strong hand and a heart fit?

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In that last hand, could your opponents have made 4♠? If you had doubled, would your partner not have bid 5❤anyway?

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yes, you need to press CC

Is it possible to stop the captioning? It covers half of south's hand.

Lessing on endplay i was watching And it shifted To snotter different lesson

On the last hand (#1) the key to the weaker hand choosing trumps seems to be the outside entries. South knows that north has a weak hand and may well have no outside entries to their strong suit, as is the case here.

I suppose the other consideration for the first hand (#5) would be whether they let you play in 2S? North can see it is very unlikely to make game in anything so their best bet might be to simply pass, as Tony comes to from another direction. If they do let it play in 2S, south’s weak two opening has worked perfectly!

On the last hand I'd have been sneaky and started the hearts from the Q or J in the hope that W would get greedy and not play the A believing that E had the K 🙂

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Top notch! I love that lead of the K of diamonds in the penultimate hand. Charles Goren always said that if you can’t see the obvious route, you must play to where the cards MUST be if you are going to win.

Excellent Tony,I have learned so much from your lesson.

Assuming the choice is between finessing the clubs and diamonds, then diamonds is better. However, wouldn't first going after the clubs by playing the A and K to see if the Q drops be even better? If the Q does drop, then I can cash the clubs and then take the diamond finesse. If the Q doesn't drop, I can still take the diamond finesse.

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If your 4 card major is 10 7 6 3 would you still biď it

I just stumbled across your channel and really like your clear explanations. I am fairly new to bridge but I am going to have a look at your other videos to see what I can learn. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

In that penultimate hand where you had a hearts stopper, so were only interested in spades; if partner bids hearts, doesn't that tell you they don't also have a spade stopper?

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Rise with SA and play 3 rounds of Diamonds to get rid of a Spade loser os clearly best and will work as long as Diamonds are 4-4 or even 5-3.

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On the last hand, it was important to watch the spades. When your partner leads the spade T and you ruff, they have JT8. With strength in either suit, they would have made a suit preference lead, but they led the middle card. If the have the diamond A, it would be important to return a low diamond to get another ruff, possibly for a trump promotion. A low heart is the passive defense, and it's correct in part, because partner hasn't signalled for an active one.

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Obvious trump lead. Gives nothing away.

Very nicely made, especially the examples, which are easy to follow 👌

The last hand was brilliant . Thank you