Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28

for YOU know your partner has a re-
entry and can establish the long cards.
If in such case you hold king, or
with a small card, you may play the
or 8, as your partner having. hve,
dummy holding four and the dealer
only one, your partner can read that
you are holding up the king and a
small card-except with a distribution
of cards so rare as to be unworthy OF
consideration. Should your partner
lead the ace and you hold the queen, 1t
is evident that he has opened from
ace, king and five small cards, with no
re-entry, or ace, king ana TOUR small
cards with a re-entry.
With this knowledge an examination
of the cards held by dummy and your
self will generally enable you to count
the number held by the dealer. If 1t
be with him case of no re-entry 1t is
evident that you must play your
queen, unless you can plainly show him
by the play of high intermediate card
that you not only hold the queen but
another as we'll with which to put him
in the lead. When in doubt upon an
ace led always play your queen, as you
can only lose one trick thereby, where
as by blocking your partner you may
lose three or more. Should your part
ner open with a king and you hold
the ace, it is evident that he must
have the queen and that he also either
holds Jack or 10 or has seven card
suit. Hence if in addition to the ace
| both jack and 10 are in sight 1t is a
seven card suit headed by king, queen
and he has no 're-entry. The import
| ance of bringing in such a long suit
! is apparent and with this knowledge
of it's length and sight of your hand
and that of dummy it is only matter
of counting 10 to tell how many at
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| If the suit can be so played as to win
all the tricks. If ace, jack be in sight
| but not the 10 the leader may or
| may not hold the 10. Holding two
| besides the ace with three to jack in
| dummy play the intermediate card.
| Holding four to the ace with two to
| jack in dummy play the ace and return
| the small A careful consideration OF
| the cards held by yourself and dummy
| if there are held in other combinations
than those given above should enable
you to determine whether to overtake
| with the ace. AS general rule it is
better to overtake as your partner is
otherwise likely to place the ace with
! the dealer and hence to abandon the
suit, which may lead to disastrous re-
suits as it Is seldom that there is more
than one established suit against no
trump.
If a queen be opened and you hold
the king you should play it on the
first trick in almost every instance, as
your partner holds the queen, jack and
three leads will usually establish the
suit.
If your partner leads queen and you
hold the ace, your play is determined
by the position of the king. If it be
in dummy it is evident that you should
not play ace unless dummy plays king.
If the king be not in dummy you
should play the ace, as you cannot lose
thereby and the king may be alone
and thus be captured by your ace.
If a jack be led, assume that your
partner has led from ace, jack, 10 or
king. jack, 10, and let your play be de-
termined by the honors or lack of hon
| ors in dummy. If in such case you
hold the queen it can do no harm to
| play the same, as the cards held by