. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. 4. 4. 4. 4. o AUCTION BRIDGE IO5 After leading the ace, follow with youroriginal fourth-best, unless you hold twohonors in sequence, as in the first two com-binations shown. In that case you lead oneof the two honors, and always the higher, sothat the jack following the ace will deny thequeen, while the queen following the ace willshow the jack. The fourth-best of the suit is always ledoriginally when you have no combinationfrom which you would lead a high card. Thefourth-best is also the
. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. 4. 4. 4. 4. o AUCTION BRIDGE IO5 After leading the ace, follow with youroriginal fourth-best, unless you hold twohonors in sequence, as in the first two com-binations shown. In that case you lead oneof the two honors, and always the higher, sothat the jack following the ace will deny thequeen, while the queen following the ace willshow the jack. The fourth-best of the suit is always ledoriginally when you have no combinationfrom which you would lead a high card. Thefourth-best is also the card of uniformity forthe second round in all suits in which you donot lead a high card for the second card is always counted from the top ofthe suit as it stood originally. In each of thefollowing the fourth-best would be the four:. 9? 9? 9? io6 AUCTION BRIDGE O O o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 O O0 o 0 0 o o 0 0 0 0 o o0 o LEADS AGAINST NO-TRUMPERS When playing against a no-trump declara-tion, if your partner has not indicated a suit,you should select the longest suit in your ownhand for the opening, unless you have a suitheaded by three honors, one as good as theking. In playing against no-trumpers, there is nohurry about making- your aces and kings, asthere is in a trump declaration; because youare not in the same danger of losing cannot be trumped, and they may bemore useful later in the hand than at the start. There is this simple difference between therules for leading high cards. Against a trumpdeclaration, you always lead from any twohonors in sequence; but at no-trumps you do AUCTION BRIDGE 107 not lead high cards unless you have threehonors, at least two of them in such combinations as ace, king-, queen;king, queen, jack^ queen, jack, ten; ace, queen,jack; or king, queen, ten, you would lead th
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