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The Daily Deal
Each day we "seed" one lesson deal somewhere into our otherwise randomly dealt set of boards. The board number is different each day. You never know which board it is. The daily deal is a free mini-lesson. You can take home a handout of the daily deal every day. We hope you find it educational as well as entertaining. To see past Daily Deals, click here. |
Sitouts Banned!
We have done away with sit-outs, for once and for all. When we have a half-table in the game, you can play the hands you miss on the computer.
Your score vs. the computer does not count in the game, but it sure beats sitting out.
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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 here for instructions. | |
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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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Friday, I had the pleasure to play with Betty Kenngott, after her partner didn't show up. She played this deal like a world champion to make 1NT.
I thought it was worth interrupting our series of famous deals to share this deal with you. The series will continue next week.
Scroll down to see how she made eight tricks. |
 BOLS Bridge Tips Online |
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Check out our new page of free lessons online.
The BOLS Bridge Tips competition started in 1974, and took place off and on for more than 20 years. During that time, virtually all the world's greatest bridge players and writers contributed their ideas to the series.
Not sure what to lead? Can't decide the right bid? Want to make more contracts? Get pointers from the all-time greatest names in bridge -Reese, Rodwell, Zia, Flint, Goren, Hamman, Wolff, Schenken, Garozzo, Belladonna, Chagas and many more - they're all represented. All the advice is here in a perfect potpourri for players of every standard.
These tips are terrific. I have finished publishing them here. |
New Location for Saturdays |
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Since St. Demetrios is rented out so often on Saturdays, we are holding Saturday games at Billy Rose's bar, Jester's. It is located at:
801 E. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334 |
A Nice Endplay |
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Mindy Nakaya was on lead against Betty's 1NT contract and she chose to lead a small heart, the unbid suit, rather than her fourth diamond. Good decision, Mindy! Always listen to the bidding before you make that first lead. It will usually give you a clue.
Betty put up dummy's queen and Daryla Kenith, East, won with the ace and returned the suit. Betty ducked this trick and Mindy cleared the suit. ths was a good start for the defense.
Betty now led a club to her queen and West's ace. Mindy shifted to a spade, ducked in dummy and won by East's queen. East cashed the thirteenth heart and exited with the king of diamonds, which Betty won with the ace in her hand.
This left the following position:
Now, Betty made a key play. She cashed the diamond queen, to strip East of a safe exit, before leading three rounds of clubs to endplay East, who was forced to lead a spade away from the king. Betty inserted the jack and claimed the last two tricks.
Well done! |
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Cheers,
As always, you can follow the play of this deal with our Bridge Movie on our website. |
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