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This slam hand was supposed to be easy! - with Marla Lawson

When would we choose dummy's hand as our "master" hand? What are our losers? What could go wrong?

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Hi !


Our wonderful bridge teacher, Marla Lawson, was kind enough to help us analyze this tricky slam hand. We are in a 6H slam and


When would we choose dummy's hand as our "master" hand? What are our losers? What could go wrong?


At first, it looks like we have a good chance at making our slam, but pretty quickly we find ourselves facing a tricky decision. How would you play through this hand and how would you adapt when we gather all the info we learn in the first two tricks?


Leave a question or comment and then play through the BBO hand on the Youtube page here: https://youtu.be/MiRGithxss8


Your partner in learning,

Bajir from LBO


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