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Show j EASY LESSONS IN AUCTION BRIDGE f I f I Cy PAUL H. SEYMOUR I f Author ol "Kii'hlirjlitl on Auction Brldgo" T C... .- -. ..?- . -i iCopyrltrht. by Hoyle. Jr.) Article Ten. Aic!3;:n- BJcs by Third Hand nrMUS subject will be divided Into I the following headings. Third hgr.d bidding, (1) After a suit bid by dealer and pa?s by second hand. (2) After a suit bid by dealer and an overbid by second hand. (3) After a no trump bid by dealer and a pass by second hand. (1) After a no trump bid by dealer ami an overbid by second hand. (',) After any bid by dealer has been doubled by second hand. (1) After dealer has bid one of a suit and second hand has passed, third hand must not pass "just because be-cause his purtner's bid stands" as there are several situations in which he Is expected to bid. If his partner's bid Is in a minor suit and he has a major suit good enough for a defensive defen-sive bid he should bid it because of the greater game-going possibility of a major suit. He should change the bid to no trump If he has the other three suits protected with one and one-half quick tricks and no major, suit bid. When an original bid is made on a suit of four or five cards it is Important Im-portant that the partner should hold approximately his share of the remaining re-maining cards of that suit, and If he does not hold that many he should If possible make some bid to inform his partner of that fact. Three small cards, or two if one Is as high as the queen. Is therefore called normal expectancy. ex-pectancy. A bid made to announce a smaller holding than this is called a denial bid. If third hand is void of suit bid by dealer or has only small one in It he should make a Cenlal bid in another suit or no trump If he holds as good as defensive bid strength that Is. one and one-half quick tricks, or he should name any six card suit. If he holds only two small cards of I partner's suit he should take out his I partner's minor suit bid by a major, or take out one major by the other one provided be has defensive strength. Hut he should pass rc.ther than take out a major suit by a minor. Examples of overbidding partner's unopposed suit bid. Dealer having bid a diamond and re,-ond hand having hav-ing parsed, thirl lignd. w'.ien holding the following, should: (1) S A x x x x. 11 X xx. T x. C X x x x bid one sp: de. (J) S xx xx. H NO-xxx. D O, C 0 .1 x x bid one heart. (.'.) S A x x. II Q xxx. D xxx. C K x x bid (ins no trump. Dealt r having bid n heart ar.d soc-ord soc-ord hand having passed, third hand, hold'ng the following-, should: () S AQxxx. H xx. D xxx. C O x bid one spade. (.") S x x x, II x x. D A Q x x x. C 0 x x pass. ('-') Aftr a Sjit Eid by Dealer and Overbid by Second Hand. If third band holds normal expectancy ex-pectancy In his partner's suit he should then consider whether or not his hand Is stroni: enough to raise his partner's bid. Without normal expectancy ex-pectancy he should not raise, no matter mat-ter what oilier strength he may hold. With normal expectancy what Is needed for a raise? According to our rules for an original bid. dealer Is counting upon his partner's hand for three tricks, therefore partner must not count those three again. Hut If be has four he may raise once, nnd he may raise as many times as he has probable tricks above three. The next matter of vital lni"or-tanee lni"or-tanee Is to know bow to count probable prob-able assisting tricks, which Is done quite differently from counting tricks for an original bid. In countlnrr probable prob-able tricks in an nsslstlng hand, first double the whole and half quick tricks of nil suits except Ihe one bid. Then add to this, one for each honor as high as the queen In tlx" trump suit : one for holding four or more small trumps (If an honor Is counted the extra small one must net be) : also one trick If able to ru!T the second round of n plain suit (that Is. If holding a singleton) : and two tricks If able to run" both first and second rounds (In other words. If void of n suit). Having Hav-ing a doubleton, the ability to ruff the third round may be counted H a I rlcl;. so that with two doubletons one more trick may be lidded. Fxaniplcs of counting assisting tricks lo r. . . partner's space bid: (t) m A -XT xwx fl f-Asx f") "-Axxx CI O-x (U C- x V A - Kxxvx (1) -xx 0 ,) k ivx n --xrxxxx o T-U'X I " 1 X"KVT (11 o-Kix c: o- xx (M x-x - xx (',) Nik. 1 and 2 are worth one rah"': No. ft. (wo raises: but No. ! should be passed as It contains only three probable tricks. This last band forcibly for-cibly Illustrates tho fuel that even a large number of small cards In your purl tier's suit w ill not add much strength to his hand. In this case If the bidder has Ihe high spades the probabilities me that the of these small ones would fall upon them leaving leav-ing bill one lo make nil exlra trick. |