The losing trick count is a great aid to level of contract visualization. The following hand has 3 or 3 1/2 losers. However, when partner bids Four clubs competitively, you certainly have no club loser, and the E-W barrage in hearts makes your Axxx of hearts not a one trick loser even, since you can expect no more than one heart in dummy and can ruff the rest. I had a clear SIX CLUB call, not made at 13 tables where players were more wooden in their slam HCP estimation in face of the barrage of opponent raises.Of course, West had no business doubing.
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- Ramesh Abhiraman
- Bridge expert for 20 years. I started blogging about bridge only in 2009. Chess follower. Problem fan. Studied hundreds of composition themes in two-movers, fairy chess, the former from the Good Companion era to the modern style of virtual play. Big collector of chess and bridge rare books. My two game blogs bridge blog, and my chess problem themes blog chess expo
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