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How does your answer compare to the experts?Shawn QuinnTop-ranked female player2♣️ – Don’t ask me about the rebid! I am hoping partner has a positive response with a long suit. If partner...

How does your answer compare to the experts?Shawn QuinnTop-ranked female player2NT – I have a balanced hand with slow tricks, so this is my best description. It keeps the auction...

Click here to read the previous Five Rules to Make You a Better Player Rule 11 Play against good players as often as possible. When I first started playing in...

Click here to read the previous Five Rules to Make You a Better Player... Rule 16 What system you play is not nearly as important as how well you play...

Click here to read the first Five Rules to Make you a Better Player. Rule 6 Think before you play at trick one, especially as declarer.  A great habit for...

Rule 1 Play only with partners you like and enjoy playing with.  Of course, this is very simple advice, but if you look around your club or tournament, there are...

Bid and play this hand along with me. In a regional Knockout Teams, neither side vulnerable, as South I hold West, the dealer, passes, my partner opens 1♦️, East overcalls 1♠️, I...