{"id":246,"date":"2015-01-19T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=246"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:39:21","slug":"next-lesson-thursday-1222015-930-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Next Lesson Thursday 1\/22\/2015 9:30 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all. Our next lesson will be Thursday morning at the Bridge Center. I&#8217;ll be continuing the lesson on defense that I started last time. I&#8217;m using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeworld.com\/indexphp.php?page=\/pages\/learn\/elementary\/lesson10.html\">Bridge World article<\/a> as my lesson plan. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a quick review of some of what we discussed last time:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Mid-hand, if you&#8217;re leading a spot card in a suit then lead a low one if you want the suit returned but\u00a0lead a high one if you want partner to shift.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Against NT contracts, if you win partner&#8217;s opening lead and are going to return the suit then lead your original fourth best if you started with 4 or more in the suit. \u00a0If you started with 3 in the suit return your higher card. \u00a0This will help your partner know whether to keep playing them or not.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Second hand should <em>usually<\/em> cover an honor with an honor, but only if there&#8217;s a chance of promoting something in your hand or your partner&#8217;s hand. \u00a0For example, if Dummy has AQ10 in a suit, you have the K and declarer leads the J then don&#8217;t cover. \u00a0It can&#8217;t help your side. \u00a0On the other hand, if Dummy has AQ3 in the suit and declarer leads the J then you should cover. \u00a0Your partner might have the 10 which will score on the third round of the suit.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0If you&#8217;re third hand, watch for situations where Dummy has Qxx or Kxx and you have AJx, A10x, or even sometimes A9x. \u00a0Don&#8217;t automatically play &#8220;Third Hand High&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s often right to play your J,10, or 9 and preserve your A over dummy&#8217;s honor. \u00a0To make it clear, suppose partner leads the J and Dummy has Q42, while you hold A96. \u00a0Picture Declarer with K53. \u00a0If you go up with the Ace then they get 2 tricks in the suit. \u00a0If you duck then they only get one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all. Our next lesson will be Thursday morning at the Bridge Center. I&#8217;ll be continuing the lesson on defense that I started last time. I&#8217;m using a Bridge World article as my lesson plan. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a quick review of&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=246\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}