Henderson Daily Dispatch

READING DURING BIDDING

CARD READING during the
bidding can pay just as great
dividends as during the play.
sometimes much more. If the op-
ponents are bidding against you,
for instance, and one of them
fails to support a call by his part-
ner in a major suit, of which you
yourself are short, you can auto-
matically place a fair number of
that suit in your partner's hand.
That makes your partner unlikely
to hold very many cards in some
other suit in which you hold
length. Such being the case, be-
ware of misfit.

West North East South
Pass Pass 1 ♦ Pass
Pass Pass Pass

South should have been duly
fearful of a misfit from the mo-
ment he saw his freak hand.
Such a holding can be powerful
if your partner fits either suit,
with a hand like East's or West's.
but disastrous when stuck with
one like North's.
Even with nothing special de-
veloping in the bidding, South
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