Orewa Bridge Club
Alison Beer, a Life Master, is one of our most experienced Bridge Players. Alison often provides hints and tips that are published in our Newsletters and has kindly given permission for them to be published here for easy reference. Alison plays regularly in our clubrooms and is always willing to chat through any questions you may have on the subject of bridge.
Quick Tricks are more important than your high card points. Let’s say partner opens 3S and you have a good hand:
You are in 3NT. The Jack of spades is led.
The bidding has gone Pass - Pass – Pass, so it’s now up to you whether or not this board gets passed in. You have a marginal, will I or won’t I? sort of hand.
This is what a top New Zealand player, administrator and teacher (Alan Turner QSM) said to a Directors’ class I attended many years ago.
We start with two important facts:
1. You are not competing with the room, just with that one opposing pair playing your way at the other table.
