Squeezing Out The Beer Card - Weekly Free

[@robertkrech7412]

Thanks again for the great videos and especially your insights and the way you talk through your train of thought Pete - learned a lot! I also learned about the beer card from your vids, never knew of it. When I read a bit into it's "history", I found out that it actually comes from an old German / Danish card game called Skat - which I used to play a lot when I was very young. In that game (played with a deck of 32 cards), diamonds are the lowest ranking suit and the 7 is the lowest card, hence winning the last trick with it is considered somewhat of a feat. Accordingly, by analogy, the logical "beer card" in bridge should actually be the 2 of clubs (lowest card in the lowest ranking suit). It would be interesting to know how the concept was transferred from Skat into Bridge. Funny fact.

[@jonthomson5764]

Ah, you had the robot go bonkers on board 2 as well... did make a pushy 3NT bid on board 4, got a spade lead, win in dummy then heart to hand, then get the guess of the Jh right for 100%. Otherwise mostly the same, was in NTs on board 1, didn't make board 6, 1NT open on 7 for the extra 10 points, just went straight quant invite on 8 with the same results

[@JoolsBedstead]

Hand 4: I ducked 2 diamonds after playing H to K and A, then on the black suits E discarded 2 Hs and W one so was able to pick up the JH

[@bazilcaygill]

well played on board 5. (Most of us didn't get the mis-defence of a spade pitch though. It's more normal for West to make three club discards on the trumps, which makes the winning line almost impossible to find.)

[@henrycrun42]

Board 1. Peter ."Queen jack doubleton spade is not really that crash hot"...made me smile thinking it was a darn sight better than 7 deuce doubleton heart

[@andriyu]

I think what Pete means is that the 3 HCP in the spade suit are worse than an average 3 HCP. A suit of 72 is worse, but it’s not a waste of HCP meaning the strength of your hand is better for the same number of HCP. Turn those QJ of spades into 72 of spades and the 5 of clubs into the K of clubs and the hand has the same number of HCP but becomes much stronger.

[@slobaxi5544]

Board 6. Did u consider trumping last club before playing diamonds is it better play?

[@harrisbobroff9813]

I won the Beer Card in a Squeeze in 6 Spades

[@BridgeWithPete]

NICE!