Download or read book Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a comprehensive view of the various types of hands a beginning player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you how to play the first card, how to ruff, how to set up a long suit, how to avoid the danger hand, how to avoid being ruffed, how to play for the drop, how to get a count on the hand and how to handle special card combinations. In addition, you will learn about finessing up to a lone honor, the ruffing finesse, the backward finesse and other finessing techniques.