Show U o 0 0 The Dealers Dealer's Play Retain Play Retain Retaining 8 IB o 0 in ing Command of the Adversaries Adversaries' Ad Ad- Lon Long Suit Ui a ac at atNo c c No Trumps I TX N N. whist in bridge and also in auction one of the first advanced ad strategies learns is a 11 player to retain the command of the adversaries' adversaries suit just as us long as it is necessary to do so in order to prevent the partner who is is short in the suit to be able to lead it to the one who has succeeded cd in it It stands to reason that if the original leader lender of such a suit has no outside card of entry re-entry your reta retaining ning the master until there is no o way of his being put into the lead again will prevent the suit which has hns been established from ever being brought in All An experienced d players will tell teU you Jou that there is a vast 1st difference between establishing and brin bringing bring bring- ing in a long suit White While aces may be held up until the tho third round in in a no tn this is riot 1101 so with kings or queens when a higher card still remains fem It is is best then to take tae the trick wh when n the opportunity of offers fers for the adversary ersary may lc lend cl through your hand and find catch your Jour unguarded honor There hero are arc times when if you find that a second long suit is lucid heM against you ou it will pay to take the lead at once and make whatever er you C can in the two remaining suits Frequently the timely play of a well guarded king from the dummy mu may bethe bo be bothe bothe the only chance of saving the game Again gain the cards of your our long suit may be so distributed that thata a n continuance of it t would only succeed in establishing establishing establishing lishing it for the enemy The only thing then to tobe tobo tobo bo be done dono is to hold on to the tho commanding card eard of that suit and to tr luck in try your our establishing an nn- other A good player will ill aha always s watch the score lie lc i will know just how many tricks he must take to go o game and will twill take the first lead lend possible and go o out whenever cr he lie sees sufficient assured tricks to accomplish this end Whenever er the dealer sees that by taking the first trick in iii the suit led by bythe bythe bythe the opposition that he hc will enhance the value of a n acard acard card held b by dummy he lie should not hesitate in play playing ing jug n 1 forward game You m may at such a time give tip ip tho the control temporarily o only ly to regain it at a later aler and AmI more important stage of the game ame for forat forat forat at the end you will hold tho the master card curd of the suit hold held b by tho the enemy Suppose Suppo e that you ou hold the aco ace and a small card on one si side e of the tho table and a doubly l guarded l jack jaek on the other If the adversary adversary adver adver- sar sary leads an honor you can cau easily afford to take tale that card with the ace ae for your our doubly guarded jack will insure the taking of the third trick of or that suit Th The same rule rul applies to a trebly guarded guard guard- ed cd ten if you have o the ace and a small mall card opposite opposite site ite and also if you have havo a n doubly guarded ten opposite to the ace and anti jack Sometimes even e if you ou take the first trick in such instances jou rou will fin find that the uit suit will remain protected provided your O right hand adversary has not led it There are other times when wIlen erl c even if an un honor hOllor be led lcd the first trick should be passed Suppose that you hold two small cards on one side and the ace ten and two small cards on the other Or Orif Orif Orif if you jou ou hold hoM two small cards opposite to the ace acc jack hack and ono one small card If the suit is opened with witha n a low card and third hand plays an au honor the first trick should be taken for if you do not thus protect protect pro pro- sect yourself the enemy will play through your our hand If however howe with this distribution au an honor honoris is led lcd you should pass pas the tho first fils trick I If f you on hold the thc kin king and queen o of the adversaries adversaries' adver adver- saries' saries suit whether together r or divided you jOtI arc are assured of one trick in the suit pos possibly ibb two but hut there is a n certain amount of danger in iii taking the tIle first trick for then the your ou hand ma may be lid kd through and und the remaining honor be killed so it i is oftener safer to win ivin the third thir round rounel of the suit than the first Suppose the cards arc held this way You have havo j o the tho queen Once lIe guarded on one side an and a i doubly guarded e 1 kind curd card 1 in your our own hand or you OU II have havo t two small cards in dummy dumm with ith tho king jack and a n small card in your own hand The Tho leader leador in inthis inthis in inthis this latter instance opens with a n small card and his partner er puts up the thc queen If you should be obliged t to w win n the first trick in any of these examples be sur sure surd to play pIny so as to prevent pre your right-hand right adversary ad ad- from obtaining g the lead for this will give gi him the opportunity of playing through your your hand Whenever cr you find that the adversaries adversaries' can take two tricks in your suit make every ery effort to take the first and rind third in their suit rather first and second Suppose that you hold a doubly guarded jack in dummy w with th the and ace queen of the suit in your own hand A low card is led and you arc are in a 11 position to take the first sound round with the tho queen A fatal error for by so doing you arc are obliged to take the first and second rounds of the suit while if you jou ou take the first round with the ace although your queen will on the second round be sacrificed to the king your jack will still control th the situation on the third round It requires a n thorough knowledge of card situations situations situ situ- in order to be always s 's sure whether r or n not f to take the trick in sight or with lith which card it t wo would be most moat profitable to do so Always remember that unless unless' there is a n second suit against you it is invariably invariably invariably in in- variably safer to win the tho second and third rounds of the adversaries adversaries' suit than the first and third Suppose that dummy holds a doubly guarded king of the suit led by the adversary and you as dealer have the tho ace and a small card you should not take the first trick with the ace for Ifor if you want to play pIny the ace on the second round there is always a chance that your right-hand right adversary ad will be void oid in n the suit and unless the original leader of it holds two cards of re-entry re ho he will never r be able to make his s suit Always make it a point to clear your Iong lon suit bt before forc you lose whatever cards of re entry re-entry you may hold When you as d dealer aler have ha said No Yo trumps tr you ou should be careful to keep any possible card of rc-ent rc entry re-entry dummy may hold so as to put that dint hand handin in to bring in a suit or to make an advantageous lead from the weak hand Indeed a great deal of the dealers dealer's success in playing placing no trumps depends depend upon his skill in saving saying or even cven in creating reentries reentries reentries re re- re- re entries in the weaker han hand 1 Any card of the suit from rom the ace nee to the tre trey may bo ho used as its a coming- coming in card The master card of your own on-n suit or a aguar guar guarded ed honor in the suit held by the enemy may serve as cards of re Tho The question of reentries ro- ro entries should in invariably be taken into tion before the dealer has touched any of cards ards not only that but every ery card that tha l can by an any possibility be used for this purpose be saved saed carefully for frequently in order to gain the desired advantage from fl a finesse the deal dealer r must be so placed that ho lie can lead twice hico from rom the weak hand Sometimes you will find that your long suit i is blocked and rind you should then try to establish A t card ard ardo o of re-entry re before the enemy is alive o to 10 the die situation situa situation tion for if they see what your difficulties are they will not permit you to enter and make suit Occasionally when you hold four cards of a suit in each hand it may take a good deal of management management manage nage ment to keep a n re-entry re just dust where it will bo be needed need need- ed Suppose that you OU hold the king six f four ur and trey in dummy and in in your own hand the aco ace queen nine and deuce If you rou lead the deuce toward toward toward to to- ward tho the king and play that card you ha have e taken from dummy tho the only in coming-in card he has in the tho suit but if you lead lend the tho nine nino toward the king dummy's six wi will probably be the master card on the fourth round and ma may be of tho the greatest possible assistance to you in o opening of tb the next suit Sometimes you will hold a nine card suit divided divided di dt- vided four on one side and five fie on the other and it it- ma may be necessary to toise u use ise e both the third and fourth rounds as IS re entries in or order cr to lead another suit Buit to advantage nd Too many players quite overlook crook such opportunities and in their anxiety to make ke along n a long suit will wiIl play such a n combination without sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- thought or calculation |