Reading Hands at Bridge

[@radbcc]

Rob, your teaching style is perfect for me.

[@ArsLonga1967]

Just starting out with Bridge, never thought (d'oh!) to count points in dummy, both partner's and opposition, and work out the remaining HCPs... Obvious now I've been shown. Thank you so much and greetings from the UK 😊

[@BEstudent]

The most important numbers in bridge to remember are 13 and 40. With these numbers you are able to reverse engineer every distribution. :D I hope you like bridge. It is really fun.

[@omshankarlalshrestha2906]

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[@runeljungstrommer331]

Very instructive, thx!

[@carolbulmer8253]

Very cool!

[@susanbentley9967]

Just learning.

[@davidramsbottom7703]

nice exposition of counting the hcp and shape. to my mind declarer could have had 6 spades and 4 diamonds, maybe even 6-5, but the pricnicple of thinking about the lie of the cards (shape and hcp) is nicely illustrated.

[@armantookmanian1938]

Avoiding being endplayed at 12:30 is quite a difficult skill to develop. Playing the SJ feels counterintuitive, because it draws 2 trump from the defenders (both you and partner) and only one from Declarer. It requires seeing ahead 2-3 tricks rather than going on "autopilot" trying to give partner another heart ruff.

[@nagpurgal]

Rob, can you post your lecture from September 23 rd? If you don't have it now, can you make a video? YOu could give us hands and ask us to guess cards. Thanks!

[@pokeutopia]

This video is amazing! Thank you so much for explaining

[@bridgelesson]

pokeutopia thanks so much

[@pamelamartin3000]

Wonderful. Opportunity.fo me!

[@jerietawaltin-james1166]

Pamela Martin has

[@BodyUnknown]

How to remember cards played already at bridge

[@kalpeter1064]

Good lesson thanks.

[@adamlea6339]

Another lesson demonstrated here, don't overcall at the two level vulnerable on poor suits, unless you have extreme distribution or a lot of HCP to compensate.

[@ciprianteasca7823]

Beautiful example.

[@armantookmanian1938]

At 12:40 could Declarer discard on the H6? He would gain control of trump if N trumps to prevent Dummy winning the H trick. Yes, he still goes down, but less.

[@ankeunruh7364]

Why was the natural 1NT opening alerted (or what else is the meaning of the undelying color)?

[@lambch7144]

It's because he's playing against robots. When doing so, bids are alerted.

[@AshokkumarBPatel]

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[@tomgorey9294]

Don't understand why bots play cappeleti over strong nt anyways great video

[@susanbentley9967]

Focus

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

at trick 5 I saw how nasty this was going to be for declarer

[@lauraberendson4032]

I am a beginner so this is all Greek To Me

[@rbogernc]

At the start of this game you called the suite bid by West a Minor, but a Spade is a Major suite. I think you made a wrong statement didn't you?

[@sigfrednikolai2705]

I think he said a two suited bid. A spade and a minor. But i am not a native english speaker, so I could be mistaken.

[@rishabhsaxena961]

@@sigfrednikolai2705 but what does that mean? What's a 2 suited bid?

[@in-oz]

He meant that 2S showed a 2-suited hand with spades and a minor. As you see declarer had spades and diamonds.

[@adammacer]

@@in-oz How does it show that rather showing that W just had strength in Spades and had to go 2 as 1NT had already been bid?

[@charliewei9907]

@@adammacer That is the bot's defense using the Cappelletti system. You can google it to see what each bid means after 1NT opening.

[@adammacer]

"Alerted as a spade and a minor" - ?..

[@AshokkumarBPatel]

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