How to Read Your Opponents' Cards: Bridge Experts' Way to Locate Missing High Cards - Softcover

Mike Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0709047584 ISBN 13: 9780709047582

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

World champion Mike Lawrence teaches you the critical skill of card location in contract bridge: how to determine which cards your opponents are holding based on what they did or didn’t bid and what they've led or haven't led. Learn to spot and interpret clues from the opening bid on. He tells you what a bridge player should think about, why, and how. Each chapter explains a principle and gives examples. All chapters but the last, which is about reading subtle tells and signs from your opponents, have a quiz section to help you practice techniques. Applying Mike’s expert logic as each card is played will point you to the likely location of the remaining unplayed cards. If you follow his tips and concentrate on counting, distribution and applying deductive reasoning, your bridge game will greatly improve.

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Review

Mike Lawrence is concerned less with how to play your hand than with how to think about playing. The idea is to minimize risk by deducing where your opponent's high cards are. Lawrence shows how to spot and interpret clues from the opening bid on with chapters titled "Sizing Up the Case," "Finding the Witness," "Analyzing the Clues," "Conducting the Investigation," "Checking the Evidence," "Nailing Down the Case," and "Making Your Sixth Sense Work." The latter deals with watching your opponent's body language for the "tells" that reveal their thoughts involuntarily. Each chapter but the last features a quiz section to help you practice techniques.

Edition details

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709047584
• ISBN 13: 9780709047582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192