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Draw Trumps Work Suits Minibridge Crib Sheet Draw Trumps as soon as you can Any suit where you jointly hold Rank of suits Unless you can ruff from the ‘short’ hand 7 or more cards is an Opportunity NT No Trumps STOP Drawing trumps But Draw Trumps and lose your losers early on  Spades Low to HighWhen you have taken all of the Oppositions’ Majors OR You don’t have to play your Ace  HeartsThey have one left higher than any of yours When the opposition try to lose their losers, they want you to play your Ace. SWOT Hold it up!  Planning How might Opponent's cards break? Diamonds Minors Odd breaks close to even ♣ ClubsStrength TOP winners Even breaks close to Odd Value of Honour cardsWeaknessOpportunity Tricks short Finesses Ace 4 King 3Threat Ruffs from the short hand Making a sandwich to trap their honour Queen 2 Work Suits between yours. Jack 1 Finesse Try to sandwich the K Announcing points - Dealer goes first Blocking between the A and Q  Danger hand 16 Play LOW from North 8 Don’t Block TO N 10 6 WE HIGH in South. S Danger Hand Points must total 40 The hand with winning cards.Make sure that you take tricks A 4th from an honour lead must have a Side with most points is Declaring side in the right sequence. long suit with an honour! Person with most points is DeclarerUsually, in the short hand first. Partner is Dummy Equal points – Re deal

Choosing Trumps or No Trumps Scoring Leads Magic 8 between you? For tricks over 6 After Dummy is on the table,With 9  East-West will play choose  ♠  30 points per trick the player on Declarer’s LEFT as trumps  ♣ 20 points per trick leads a card. With Magic 8 in a Minor NT 40 points for 1st trick Or No Magic 8 30 for the rest Lead vs. No Trump contracts. choose No Trumps Bonuses 1. Top of a sequence of honours 2. Top of an interior sequence 50 for a part score 3. Top of a near sequence 4. 4th from an Honour 300 for game score 5. MUD 6. Doubleton or SingletonHow many Tricks? How many tricks for game? Lead vs. Suit contracts.Combined points No of Tricks ♠  10 Tricks 21-22 7  ♣ 11 Tricks 1. Top of a sequence of honours 23-24 8 NT 9 Tricks 2. Singleton 25-26 9 3. Top of a Doubleton 27-28 10 If we don’t make our contract? 4. MUD 29-32 11 50 points per trick short 33-36 12 to the Opposition Basic Strategies 37+ 13 © Copyright Keith Butler 2015 Second plays LOWKeeping track of Tricks Third person tries to win.won lost (Third man does what he can!) Return the suit that Partner led Don’t cash your Top tricks until you have lost your losers. Lead though strength towards weakness.