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Bridge Tips

Set Up the Fifth Card

If you have a five-card side-suit in dummy e.g. A6543, and a low singleton in hand and three outside entries, do consider trying to set up the fifth card in this suit. The suit will divide 4-3 about 62% of the time which is higher than many players realise. You might need to work on this suit before drawing trumps as you may need to use some trumps in dummy as entries.

Richard Croot