N13: ACBL Series 4 - Bridge: Defense

Approximately 50% of your time playing Bridge you will be on defense. A minor improvement in defense should have a major improvement in you overall Bridge results. The primary focus on defense will be on the "opening lead," the most important card played by defenders. The opening lead is often the difference between setting the opponents or allowing the opponents to take extra tricks. Note that defenders can't see their partner's cards, but declarer can see their partner's cards. Defenders can legally signal to describe their hand through discards and positional play. This is a partnership game and your partner should understand your leads, discards and positional play. Participants will be given the opportunity for open card play during the last hour of this session.
Purpose: Learn how to make informative leads and positional play.
Facilitator: Dean Oestreich