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Receive my weekly posts DIRECT to your chosen email box. Click 'Join Here' It's really easy to sign up & your email is safe so you won't be spammed - I respect your privacy. Many year ago when I was in my twenties, I was sitting with three other men in a dirt floor hut that consisted of stick walls, which kept out wild animals and the occasional Kasawari chick, and a roof made from banana leaves, whose purpose was primarily to keep out the daily tropical downpour. The PNG Attitude signals are used by a defender to show interest in a suit. When partner leads a suit, the third hand play of a high card is encouraging, whereas a low card is discouraging. For example, if partner leads an ace and you hold KQ932, then the 9 is the proper encouraging signal. Conversely, if your A minor little bidding ditty This is the first post in a series where I talk about ‘easy-to-implement’ conventions that you can add to your bidding with no effort or memory meltdowns. This week, I am going to talk about a really simple but little used bidding ditty that I think is rather cool: Intro One In my twenties I used to laugh, because I’d go visit my mum in sunny Liverpool on occasion and she would always have a tin of pears for me to eat in the cupboard… What’s this got to do with Benji Acol, I hear you ask? More than you would think… You see, back when I was a kid, I was on Facebook recently. A lot of people won’t have anything to do with it – I certainly wasn’t remotely interested in Facebook until one of my children forced me to get online and register. Nowadays I will acknowledge that there are some good things about it for the Bridge player… For example, if you search on In my last post, ‘How not to panic as declarer when dummy goes down’, I was saying that following the opening lead, you should decide which hand to be your ‘anchor hand’. This process can give you a clear indication as to exactly what your losing cards are and what you need to do in order As soon as the lead is made and dummy goes on the table, we are always told as declarer to: “Plan your Play!!” That’s all very well shouting this mantra, but HOW do you plan play? In my experience of many players, it is more like, ‘Panic and Play!’ You stare at the 26 cards before you, your mind goes What do you really need to do in order to improve your Bridge as fast as possible? Do you study by reading too many Bridge books? I remember when I started playing Bridge. I was self-study-obsessed and read books like there was no tomorrow. Why? Because I didn’t want to let my Bridge partner down, or to On 28th May 2011, I wrote an blog entitled ‘A Baptism of Fire at the Bridge Club‘. Following the post, a rather lively exchange of comments ensued regarding the proper use of bidding cards and whether it was correct to return them to their box after or before the lead card was chosen and/or faced on So many “Contract Bridge” books have reviews like this: Alternatively, one reads book reviews that are basically a cut and past ‘blow of the trumpet’ from the inside cover of the |
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