When Not To Draw Trumps - Weekly Free

/ bridgevid
You don't always start with drawing trumps! What are you doing with your losers?

[@ronagarfield8902]

38:35 Great stuff learning a lot

[@aniketkasliwal]

4. I think some probability theory says it's better to take the club finesse once E shows small

[@BridgeWithPete]

I believe it is still best to play for the drop. The remaining card can be in either players hand but you know of more cards for the person who played the card so more likely to be in the other hand and the drop work.

[@poonamkishinchandani1396]

Will Ruffing work

[@helenpearce9858]

On hand 3 why didn't you show your four spades?

[@BridgeWithPete]

After opening 1NT partner is in charge. If they have 4 spades they will show them. Seeing as partner didn't show their spades I don't need to show mine because they wont have them.

[@veradux5580]

Might’ve also been punished for a 1S on bd 6.. the classic 4 spade overcall not working today!

[@BridgeWithPete]

Not today!

[@Nicholas_Buck]

@@BridgeWithPete Is 1 nt by partner not on?

[@pmarjora]

If you do play the C8 on board 2, East plays the 7 from 10,9,7, for reasons I still don't understand. Double-dummy it doesn't matter what they play - 6S still makes - so perhaps that's why they do it? Mighty confusing at the time though.

[@BridgeWithPete]

Maybe they can tell from all the possible leads it doesn't matter double dummy but still strange.

[@jyutzler]

@@BridgeWithPete The bots are notorious for playing randomly when they think it doesn't matter what they do. This occasionally leads players astray and it occasionally leads them into discarding slow winners.

[@jyutzler]

1. I took the finesse. Getting this wrong affected my focus for the rest of the session. 2. I rushed this. Drawing one trump was too many because I had not established communication in diamonds yet. 3. I didn't accept the transfer and ended up in spades which wasn't terrible. 4. I took a different route to NT but looking back at my play, I clearly wasn't paying attention. 5/6/7. At least my defense was good!

[@BridgeWithPete]

What happened for you is one of my pet peeves that I try and avoid. Back to back mistakes I find super irritating so I like to take a bit extra time to try and avoid it and redeem myself in the tournament.

[@charlescosgrove9507]

1/7/8 push 2 - Chickened out at 4S making. I really doubt I would have made slam. 3 - Got off track with the bidding and ended up at 3NT-2 4 - Got the overtrick for 3NT+1 5 - Chickened out and defended against 2S-1 6 - Passed and defended against 1NT+1 7 - Push for scoring, but I opened 1H and played at 3H+2