. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. that they could make three in hearts against it. RED SUIT DECLARATIONS As a rule, no-trumpers are dangerous dec-larations at Auction Bridge unless they arepretty strong, and if there is sufficient strengthto justify hearts, or even diamonds, thosesuits should be given the preference, on ac-count of their safety. The chief value of ano-trump bid is, either as an original declara-tion by the dealer, to shut out information, oras an advance upon a previous bid of the part-ners, as we shall s
. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. that they could make three in hearts against it. RED SUIT DECLARATIONS As a rule, no-trumpers are dangerous dec-larations at Auction Bridge unless they arepretty strong, and if there is sufficient strengthto justify hearts, or even diamonds, thosesuits should be given the preference, on ac-count of their safety. The chief value of ano-trump bid is, either as an original declara-tion by the dealer, to shut out information, oras an advance upon a previous bid of the part-ners, as we shall see presently. Playersshould be especially careful about bidding no-trumps after the adversaries have declared asuit, unless that suit can be stopped. A good working rule for beginners as a testfor a red suit declaration, is to add to thenumber of the trumps themselves the honorsin trumps which are as good as ace, king,queen, and the aces and kings in plain not count queens. If the total is eight or AUCTION BRIDGE 77 better, it is usually a safe bid for the oddtrick Take the following example:. This is equal to three aces, and is a kingabove the average ; but it is a better and saferheart declaration than no-trump, and has thegreat advantage of telling your partner inwhich suit you are strong. If we count it upaccording to the rule just given, we find fivetrumps, two honors in trumps, one king andone ace in plain suits: a total of nine. Here is an example of a hand which is nota good red declaration if tested by the eightrule: 78 AUCTION BRIDGE Although there are five hearts, there is nogood honor among them,, and no aces and onlyone king in the plain suits; a total of six^which is too weak to bid oix When there is a very short or missing suit,,it is sometimes a better trump declaration onthat account. Five or six trumps of any sizewith a strong five-card plain suit and a miss-ing suit, is very strong. As a rule, for every trick that one can countabove this eight-rule t
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