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Why is it that once we start playing random hands on our own, everything feels more complicated than how it seemed in the bridge lessons? Real-life hands just feel messier! Join us as we play two random hands from a BBO weekly challenge. Curt helps us apply the thinking we've been practicing in our lessons to two messy hands that each present an interesting and murky conundrum. Can we find clarity?


In the first board, we have a horrible lack of a fit between declarer and dummy's hands. Missing six trumps in 2♥, can we figure out where the heart queen is? And how the heck can we get back to Dummy to try to get a few more winners to make our contract?


In the second board, we have have to make a difficult choice: should we just grab our sure winners early and go down 1 to avoid going down worse, or should we risk it to make our contract even though if they attack our weak suit, we'll be toast. What would you do?

Board #1:
https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hand...|curtsolo,~~M4191cfh,~~M4233836,~~M4406xl2|st||md|3SK76543HAKT53DQCA,SQJ8HJ98DJ852CK98,S9H62DK9743CQJ652,SAT2HQ74DAT6CT743|sv|o|rh||ah|Board%201|mb|P|mb|P|mb|1S|an|Major%20suit%20opening%20--%205+%20!S;%2011-21%20HCP;%2012-22%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|1N|an|2-%20!S;%206-11%20HCP;%2012-%20total%20points%20|mb|P|mb|2H|an|New%20suit%20--%204+%20!H;%205+%20!S;%2011+%20HCP;%2012-18%20total%20points|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pc|H8|pc|H2|pc|HQ|pc|HA|pc|CA|pc|C8|pc|C2|pc|C7|pc|DQ|pc|D5|pc|D3|pc|DA|pc|H7|pc|HK|pc|H9|pc|H6|pc|H3|pc|HJ|pc|D4|pc|H4|pc|D8|pc|DK|pc|D6|pc|S3|pc|CQ|pc|C3|pc|S4|pc|CK|pc|D2|pc|D7|pc|DT|pc|H5|pc|S5|pc|SJ|pc|S9|pc|S2|pc|DJ|pc|D9|pc|ST|pc|HT|pc|S6|pc|SQ|pc|C5|pc|SA|pc|C4|pc|S7|pc|C9|pc|CJ|pc|C6|pc|CT|pc|SK|pc|S8|

Board #2:
https://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hand...|curtsolo,~~M4191cfh,~~M4233836,~~M4406xl2|st||md|4SAKT4HAKQ3DA6C653,S862HJT84DTCAJ872,SQ9H965DK98542CQT,SJ753H72DQJ73CK94|sv|n|rh||ah|Board%202|mb|P|mb|2N|an|Two%20NT%20opener.%20Could%20have%205M.%20--%202-5%20!C;%202-5%20!D;%202-5%20!H;%202-5%20!S;%2020-2|mb|P|mb|3N|an|2-5%20!C;%202-5%20!D;%202-4%20!H;%202-4%20!S;%205-10%20HCP%20|mb|P|mb|P|mb|P|pc|H4|pc|H9|pc|H7|pc|H3|pc|H5|pc|H2|pc|HA|pc|HJ|pc|HK|pc|HT|pc|H6|pc|S7|pc|HQ|pc|H8|pc|D2|pc|C4|pc|DA|pc|DT|pc|D4|pc|D7|pc|D6|pc|C2|pc|DK|pc|D3|pc|SQ|pc|S3|pc|S4|pc|S2|pc|S9|pc|S5|pc|SA|pc|S8|pc|SK|pc|S6|pc|D5|pc|SJ|pc|ST|pc|C7|pc|D8|pc|DQ|pc|C3|pc|C8|pc|CT|pc|CK|pc|DJ|pc|C5|pc|CJ|pc|D9|pc|C9|pc|C6|pc|CA|pc|CQ|

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