Should I or Shouldnt I? Drawing Trumps at Bridge Smith Marc
Should I or Shouldnt I? Drawing Trumps at Bridge Smith Marc To draw or not to draw... You might be forgiven for thinking this is an easy question to answer, and on many deals it is. (trumps, that…
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Should I or Shouldnt I? Drawing Trumps at Bridge Smith Marc
To draw or not to draw... You might be forgiven for thinking this is an easy question to answer, and on many deals it is. (trumps, that is)?
As declarer, you (usually) have the majority of cards in the trump suit, but managing them to best effect isn't always quite so simple. But there are also a large number of situations where it's all too easy to make the wrong decision. In this book, Marc Smith (a regular columnist for BRIDGE Magazine) looks at those less straightforward deals where you can't just 'draw trumps and claim'.
Perhaps you need ruffs in the short hand, perhaps a crossruff is the way home, perhaps you have entry problems, or (shudder) a less than robust trump suit. Maybe you need to guard against a bad break, either in trumps or in a side suit. Or perhaps you need to play the early part of the hand with an eye to the endgame, planning a throw-in or squeeze. All these
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