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Frustratingly, my brain always feels scattered playing bridge. And yes, loser on loser played are super powerful! I don't think about them enough

Good point! But sadly I had already played to the trick :(. I wish I led the DA!!!! Maybe I could have found that lead actually now that I think about it. But that's really bad if declarer has KQ 3rd. Both leads are bad if declarer has KQ 3rd.

Yay! I'm glad. That's what I hope that these videos are!!! Regarding your question about 4th best vs. 3rd/5th. I'm sure that you will get many different answers and that both have their upsides and downsides. I suggest 4th best vs. NT and 3rd/5th or 3rd/low vs suits. With suit contracts the main priority is being able to tell your partner that you are not interested in a ruff, because you would lead high with a doubleton. Furthermore, when it comes to suit contracts count on the hand is crucial because your partner needs to know if the opponents are able to ruff. Leading 3rd and 5th offers a finer point. Whereas 4th best vs NT is being able to trying to find the suit with partner that you can set up. 4th best doesn't just tell you about the count it tells you about the quality of the shit because your partner must have 3 cards higher than the one led. By no means am I an expert in this type of theory, but that's how I rationalize it. Hope this helps.

@BridginWithKai This makes super sense. Against NT 4th best leads lets me use rule of 11, less helpful in suit contracts.

I really appreciate that. Maybe I should write a book? I must confess tho. You don't want to see the original 30 min take LOL. I'm fumbling over my words and ideas. Got the wrong cards in the hands everything is jumping around. It's utter chaos. I'm working on it. But yea the tap out like works if you are able to ruff 4 diamonds like I said in the vid. We just didn't have one.

Yes this certainly was a frakenline

Way too true

You’re welcome! It was quite a wild ride!

But I wanna play good bridge!!!!

Here is my video on how to play Bridge: It doesn't cover everything, that would take a lifetime, but it gives you the basics and how to play: th-cam.com/video/KngMekYj2kc/w-d-xo.html

There are some other outstanding channels that can teach Bridge more in-depth if you would like some more structure. Check out Peter Hollands: www.youtube.com/@BridgeWithPete

The reality is that sometimes we just don't have the right hand to bid as Overcaller. I should bid 2D here because most people play it as natural over a 1D bid that could have only 2D. DBL massively misconstrues my hand unfortunately. If partner bids C or S, I'm just stuck. Because if I bid diamonds over whatever he bids I show a hand stronger than I have regardless if he takes it as a power double (double and originate) or a cuebid. Both show like 18+HCP which I certainly do not have. Just a thought position. I should certainly bid 2D tho

Yes I was questioning that... But also just had to assign some reason... Idk u did what u did but I made up for it in the play! Well done!

At least we are consistent

@ I was actually quite happy yeah, it’s always good to know that you’ll end up in the right contract regardless of interference

I love my partner! He's the best!

Yes!! I can't stand it when people tell me it doesn't matter so there is no point in doing it. It's so lazy and driven by the need to be right. Technique is everything and you should always try to account for as much as you can on each hand. That's what makes great declarers!

Lol sometimes these flapping hands fly away from us D:

Yay!!! I'm so glad that the extra bits are helpful! I was nervous it would make the video too long, but I really didn't want people to think they should always trump with their aces because of this video.

@BridginWithKai It's an important lesson -- when to anticipate an over-ruff, when it doesn't matter, etc. A lot of ins, lot of outs, lot of what have yous.

@@BridginWithKai Yes! +1 to this. I'll admit that at the Dora the Explorer moment when Kai paused, I was going to shout "Play the 10" at the TV, and then I was surprised you should play the Ace! In this case, anyway. Thanks for all the "alternate universe" explanations.

I will certainly do more in future vids!

I’m enjoying that too - I’ve seen all these hands before, but seeing them again with all of the universes actually played through through helps to really clarify the position and helps me spot these ideas next time around. This technique one was fresh on my mind at the time thanks to a training camp worksheet we went through with the team (:

Glad you liked it! Was a fun little thing that makes all the difference here!

Is it better than watching me screw it up in real time?

@@BridginWithKai I get to see all of the possibilities and ideas - plus they didn’t let us see declarer’s hand as dummy, so it’s harder to remember sometimes. Dw though, I enjoyed it in real time too. That said, it’s harder for me to spot the lines when I’m not in “I’m playing bridge” mode. But when you go over other relevant possibilities, I get to see why a line is right, and also when it would be wrong. Going over hands like this is fun and useful, even if I technically could figure it out myself. Plus it’s easy to miss something or discard the wrong piece of information, and you often point something out that wasn’t a clear part of my thought process, especially in cardplay

Then you don't have an entry anymore :(

But I think you mean the 3-3 line

They are already done! Just recapping. Not saying what happened yet... Leaving everybody in suspense. But if people want to see what happened they can always look it up

Bridge can be so mean sometimes! But here it gave me a difficult challenge, and I came so close to making it! But alas, it didn't happen.

@@BridginWithKai Bridge can be mean, and the scoring can be so cold and cruel... I love how on Bridge Base, your duplicate score comes up as the final cards are played: no fanfare, no sound effects, just a 38% staring back at you.

How do we make random comment the top comment

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The real winning action on this hand was: Being in 4S not 6. I messed up the auction. I don't think my partner would have put me in 6S if he knew I had 5215 shape. Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Glad you liked it! Trump coups are some of the most fun and satisfying plays that Bridge has to offer! Yay! I'm happy to hear you got it right! I certainly wouldn't have gotten it right at the table. But I always know that if a TH-camr asks what the right answer is, it's screaming: Something is really abnormal here! I just posted another video about another trump coup that I missed if you want to check that out too!

Yes this hand certainly needs 30 min! Even if I did, I think I would still play a spade just because I was so set on this play working!!!

Oh my goodness Kevin! What an outstanding deeper deep dive. Thank you for taking the time to write all of this out. I Didn't consider that they could just duck the SQ in the case that declarer has 3, although I never considered that declarer could have 3, which maybe I should. I also didn't consider that if they truly were endplayed in the dummy, I can cash my DA before endplaying them because they have no way back to their hand to cash the DQ. It just goes to show that I still have a long way to go in my Bridge thinking and I am excited to work on the climb to get there. But in the end, I am glad to hear that I made the best play!

@@BridginWithKai At the table I think it's sensible to place declarer with 2434, since not everyone would bid 3N with 3 spades, especially with no obvious club or diamond stopper (though I think it was an interesting/reasonable shot with their actual hand)

But it was a 17 count!

@ correction: “but it was 3rd seat and Isaac is asleep”

I thought so, but didn't want to call you out :P

Thanks! Oh yea that is right! Another good lesson, East has the setting trick so might as well fly King, cash the diamond and play another club!

Oh my what a surprise this must have been for you. We do no such things on this channel however I can teach you how to protect yourself from a club attack in Bridge... Unfortunately I am not the type to know how to defend myself. If somebody came at me with a club, my solution would be to run as fast as I can. Which isn't very fast, because I sit around playing bridge all day...

IDK if I Would call it dumb but yea some crazy stuff does happen. All that matters was everybody found it humorous in the end!

It wasn't an actual rule. It's just an inside joke that we had. Passing out a hand is lame and they just wanted to give me a hard time despite it being a reasonable action.

Surrogate trump!!!

4441 isn’t as bad as 4333 offensively but it’s much much worse defensively. in other words it struggles on passive lines, so it’s fine if you have slam, but otherwise not great. 5431 is extremely common and tends to play well but it really just depends on how your hand fits with your partners. The 5 card suit may be a running suit. The 4-card suit may be trump. The singleton avoids losers, and hopefully the 3 card suit is either your partners singleton/dbltn or your partners 5-card suit and helps set them up

At least with 4333 you know where you are going. 4441 is deceptively annoying imo because the Singleton seems helpful but put it against a 4333 or a 5332 and just ew.

I do love 5431 my favorite handshape! Easy to show and so versatile!!!

@@BridginWithKai first-dist as long as 4432 is out of the picture - but actually 4432 is wonderful too

I too would have covered with the K. So much still to learn! Was a great hand to analyze and learn from!

Will do!!

I think I got the hand slightly wrong I think they were a 10 count

Aces and kings are meant to be knocked out, 9s are meant to knock them out. That's the way I think about it

Glad you liked it! Next time you will see it!

Playing the KS allows them to win the ace of spades and then finesse the heart with entries to both hearts and diamonds. When we in the HQ we can cash the SQ and the CK but that would only hold them to just making.

Hold on I counted wrong. But don't I get triple double squeezed when declarer runs diamonds? I have to pitch 2 things if I pitch a club I have no entry to partners king, if I pitch a heart the diamonds run, if I pitch 2 spades the declarer can play a low space and knock out my remaining SQ tight and endplay me into playing a heart of a club giving them the last trick that they need.

Just triple squeezed not double squeezed. Dunno if there is better terminology

@@BridginWithKai Not quite. If they win the AS and run diamonds, you pitch 2 spades. Your last 5 cards are 1 spade, 3 hearts, and a club. Dummy presumably has 3 hearts and 2 clubs. Partner keeps 2 clubs and 3 hearts. When declarer plays a spade, partner pitches a heart. Now dummy has to pitch. If they pitch a club, you can just cash 2 clubs. So dummy has to pitch a heart, and now you can simply throw dummy in with a heart and they still have to give partner the last 2 clubs.

AHH! Dummy is squeezed before South!!! Well then the declarer has to duck first then we are truly triple-squeezed. KS Duck. We exit a diamond declarer cashes all the diamonds and we are forced to pitch a spade and a club. Declarer can now safely pitch clubs and play AS and another spade endplaying us into playing hearts away from our Queen. It isn't an impossible line either if declarer decides to play us for the HQ