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  2. Hand evaluation - Wikipedia

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    In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands so that they may reach the optimum contract.Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information about partner's hand and the opponent's hands becomes available.

  3. Glossary of contract bridge terms - Wikipedia

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    On defense, second hand's play of a higher card than apparently necessary, so as to obtain the lead. The play is intended to prevent fourth hand from being forced into the lead to make a return favorable to declarer. The name suggests a crocodile opening its maw to swallow up partner's winning card. Cross To enter the opposite hand.

  4. List of play techniques (bridge) - Wikipedia

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    card reading, also known as counting the hand; dummy reversal; endplay; coups; squeezes; suit combinations play; safety play; applying the principle of restricted choice; applying the theory of vacant places; applying percentages and probabilities

  5. List of contract bridge books - Wikipedia

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    Play Bridge with Mike Lawrence by Mike Lawrence; Bridge Squeezes Complete by Clyde E. Love; Winning Endplay Strategy by Clyde Love; All 52 Cards by Marshall Miles; Bridge in the Menagerie by Victor Mollo; Card Play Technique by Victor Mollo and Nico Gardener; The Devil's Ticket: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand and a New American Age by Gary ...

  6. Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand - Wikipedia

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    Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand is a book on contract bridge co-written by the Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram and the British author David Bird. It was published by Master Point Press in 2009. The book teaches novice bridge players some basic techniques of declarer play, including suit establishment, ruffing losers and the finesse.

  7. Zar Points - Wikipedia

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    Zar Points (ZP) is a statistically derived method for evaluating contract bridge hands developed by Zar Petkov. The statistical research Petkov conducted in the areas of hand evaluation and bidding is useful to bridge players, regardless of their bidding or hand evaluation system.

  8. Honor point count - Wikipedia

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    Hand patterns fitting these criteria are 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2 and 5-3-3-2 and represent 47.6% of all possible deals. Hands with a 5-4-2-2 pattern are considered semi-balanced and if included in the criteria for balanced hands would raise the probability of being dealt one of the four hand patterns to 58.2%.

  9. EHAA - Wikipedia

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    An EHAA two-bid shows six to twelve high card points, and a five card or longer suit.There are no restrictions on suit quality (xxxxx and AKQJxxxx both qualify). EHAA bidders use a "get in quick, get out quick" style, which permits interference or an opening bid in nearly every auction, protected by fairly strict requirements on further bids by the partnership.