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Sitouts Banned! 
We have done away with sit-outs, for once and for all. When we have a half-table in the game, we enter the computer as a participant in the game, in order to make a full table.
When it would otherwise be your turn to sit out, instead you play against the computer. Your score vs. the computer counts in the game. The computer is always disqualified, so it doesn't take away your masterpoints - in fact, the awards actually increase because the game is larger.
Everybody appreciates playing against "Ace O'Matic." In fact, some people are disappointed when we have full tables of "flesh & blood" players! | |
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Replay At Home  You can now replay the boards you've played at the club - in the comfort of your own home. Replay the exact same hands with any of several commercial bridge programs such as GIB or Bridge Baron if you own one. If you have not purchased one, we have a free program for you to download. Click the button for instructions. |  |
| Free Bridge Lessons | |
Rich answers your questions every Tuesday prior to the game.  |
Thursdays, we have a vugraph presentation. Rich reviews interesting deals of the past week. Each board in question is projected onto our large video screen for all to see as we discuss it. |
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Greetings!
This week's deal is from a private lesson I gave to my Monday night group. |
 | Think Outside the Box |
The auction is straightforward to a final contract of 3NT. West leads the ♥6. You have six fast tricks and need to develop three more to fulfill your contract. Where will they come from? What's your plan of action?
Scroll down for the answer. |
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In the past week or two we have seen the annual return of our favorite snowbirds begin. One by one, they are slowly trickling in.
Welcome back to beautiful South Florida. You were missed over the summer. We hope you have another wonderful winter with us. |
| Did You Know? |
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Bridge Ace is probably the most progressive bridge club in the world.
We were the first club in Broward (and in some cases, the country or the world) to introduce these innovations:
- wireless tabletop scoring terminals
- computer-dealt hands (with hand records) at every game
- interclub matches with other clubs
- scores projected continuously throughout the game
- the ability to replay deals at home
- entering a computer in the game to avoid half-tables
- special games you see nowhere else, such as barometer games, Swiss Pairs and par contests
- monthly games with expert hand analyses
Of course, other clubs have copied many of our innovations, but nobody else does it all. And we do it in a friendly environment with the nicest players you've ever encountered at a bridge club.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we are sincerely flattered! |
| The Answer |
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It looks like the extra tricks you need must come from clubs. However you have a severe entry problem.
Suppose you cross to a high diamond in order to take a club finesse. If the finesse loses, a diamond return will totally wreck your communications. Even if the defense does not return a diamond, you will have to overtake your ♦Q to get back to dummy (compressing your three diamond tricks into two) after you establish the long clubs.
Although it looks counter-intuitive, the clubs must be attacked by leading them from the closed hand. Notice that, missing the ♣K, ♣J, ♣10 and ♣9, you always must lose at least one club trick.
Duck the first trick, win the heart return, and lead the ♣A, then the ♣6. West's ♣K goes "on air." Now you can win the return and cash the ♣Q, establishing the long clubs.
At this point, you can cash the ♦Q and cross to dummy in diamonds, taking all three diamond tricks as well as four clubs and two hearts. As the cards lie on this deal, you will eventually make a spade trick as well, for an overtrick!
The Entire Deal:
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