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- Tutorial hand for
- Omar Sharif On Bridge
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- South should bid 1 heart because he has 14 points with 5 hearts.
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- Since North supported South's hearts, South should establish his
- strength in hearts and rebid at 3 hearts.
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- Since North took the bidding to game at 4 hearts, South should pass.
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- North should play the 5 of diamonds so that South can lead.
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- South should take the trick with the King of diamonds.
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- South should play the 2 of clubs to give the lead back to the
- dummy.
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- North takes the trick with the King of clubs.
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- North should try to bleed out the King and Queen of trump by
- playing the 4 of hearts.
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- South should play the 10 of hearts to force West to play the Queen.
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- North takes the trick with the Jack of diamonds.
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- South gives up the low diamond in hand.
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- This is the critical trick! North should play the 9 of hearts
- to finesse the Jack in South's hand.
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- The finesse works as East did not play the King of hearts. South
- should play the Jack to win the trick.
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- South plays the Ace of hearts to bleed out the remaining trumps.
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- North should play his final trump card.
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- South should play the seven of diamonds to claim North's remaining
- diamond winners.
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- North should play the Queen of diamonds to win the trick.
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- North should lead with his remaining diamond winner, the Ace.
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- South should respond by getting rid of a low spade.
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- North should lead down to South's Ace of clubs to pick up the
- remaining tricks. It should be trivial now for contract to be made.
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- South takes the trick with the Ace of clubs.
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- South should play his remaining trumps to take the contract.
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- North throws away a card.
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- South plays the final trump to make the contract exactly.
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- North throws away another card.
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- South can play any card here. It will lose.
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- North cannot win with any card here.
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- Play remaining card at a loss.
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- Play remaining card at a loss.
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