Janet de Botton

Bridge | 9 November 2024

issue 09 November 2024

The only end play I have ever understood is the throw in. I know when to use it. I know how to use it. And I can see it quite early in the play. But that’s it. I still don’t know how to spot (never mind execute) a squeeze, despite being told 100 times to ‘run all your trumps and leave an entry to both hands’. I never quite dare to run all my trumps. And then there is the mysterious ‘Dummy Reversal’ which came up while I was watching my teammates, Thor Erik Hoftaniska and Thomas Charlsen on BBO, playing for Norway in the World Bridge Games, identified and explained by the commentators. 

E/W put on a lot of pressure, but 5♥ seemed more than playable when dummy went down.

Hoffa ruffed the Spade lead and played a top Heart and another to dummy, discovering the very annoying trump break. It was time for a small Club from dummy and the King was taken by the Ace and a small Club returned towards the Jack.

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