Hi bridge friends,

I'd love to invite you to join Graeme's class next week for free.

Free Online Lesson with Graeme Tuffnell

July 9th, 2020 – 9:30am BST / 6:30pm AEST / 8:30pm NZT

Replay available to all registered students.

Focusing on the Opening Lead

Anybody can win a trick with an ace or a king. The cornerstone of declarer play and defence is to establish extra tricks so you can win tricks with your 2s and 3s. We’re focussing on the opening lead in this lesson but the skills we develop will help throughout the full hand.

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Related to the topic of opening leads, here is a video Graeme and I recently recorded in which he reminds us to take a moment when the lead comes down to look for clues and familiar suit combinations.

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We're in 3NT and West leads a ♥K. With the ♥AJ75 in our hand, how should we play the heart suit? Do should we win this first trick with the ♥A or save it for later?

Graeme once again reminds us to take a moment to see what we can learn from the opening lead and to recognize one of our favorite suit combinations.

What else do we know from that ♥K lead and how can help it us decide how to play this fun hand?

I hope you enjoy this video! To learn more about these topics, I can't recommend Graeme's online lessons enough. Hope to see you at his free class on July 9th!

Wishing you all the best,

Bajir

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Related links:

• Read more about the Bath Coup in bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_coup
• Originally played at Sky Bridge Club: https://skybridgeclub.com/play/20-05-16/1
• Online bridge lessons with Graeme Tuffnell: https://learnbridgeonline.com/shop/supervised-play-with-graeme-tuffnell/