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Title: How to Play Card Combinations by Mike Lawrence ISBN: 0-910791-63-5 Publisher: Devyn Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Humbling concept
Comment: On first reading Mike Lawrence's book on card combinations, I was disappointed. In fact, the book only deals with how to play seven particular suit combinations (one chapter on each). The obvious disappointment is that, even after having fully mastered the book, one will ostensibly only have mastered seven suit combinations!
Yet, on further consideration, any disappointment was mitigated by two realisations:
1) At least one will have mastered seven suit combinations; that is, be able to play them perfectly in any of a number of situations - no trumps contracts, suit contracts, contracts where entries to dummy are at issue etc.
2) One expects that the logical discussion employed to analyse these particular hands can be gradually applied to other suit combinations.
The title "humbling concept" applies here, as Mr. Lawrence's book makes it clear how difficult a task it is to become a master of bridge. Let us say there are 200 suit combinations which actually are of interest. Then one would need to read almost 30 books of this size (227 pages) to master the topic thoroughly.
In conclusion, I suspect that if it were possible to discuss all (or even most) suit combinations thoroughly in one book, Mr. Lawrence might have written such a book. Instead, one should respect his decision to concentrate on seven suit combinations, and we can perhaps hope for other books to follow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Take more tricks
Comment: How to take more tricks as declarer or as defender by playing the odds. Helps you to spot problems that may arise later in the hand. Recommended for all levels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and instructive discussion of card combinations
Comment: This book presents excellent, thoroughly explained card combinations in context (for example, a variety of declarer-play problems in which dummy holds Qx of a suit and declarer holds Ax of the same suit, or vice versa). The reader "listens" to the author's train of thought as he plans the play of the hand. It is both fascinating and instructive to see the numerous correct ways to play the same suit combinations, depending on the hand in which they appear. This book is sure to improve anyone's declarer play (unless you're already Zia or Meckstroth), far beyond the how-to of the half-dozen or so suit combinations treated in a collection of about 50 hands. As in all of Lawrence's bridge books, the lessons average to expert players need to learn are clearly and cogently stated.
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Title: How to Read Your Opponents Cards by Mike Lawrence ISBN: 0910791481 Publisher: Devyn Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Complete Book on Hand Evaluation in Contract Bridge by Mike Lawrence ISBN: 0939460270 Publisher: M. Hardy Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: To Bid or Not to Bid the Law of Total Tricks by Larry Cohen ISBN: 0963471503 Publisher: Natco Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Bridge Squeezes for Everyone by David Bird ISBN: 1894154428 Publisher: Master Point Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Dynamic Defense at Bridge by Mike Lawrence ISBN: 0910791015 Publisher: Devyn Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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