How to Read Your Opponent's Cards: The Bridge Experts' Way to Locate Missing High Cards

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Customer Reviews:

Outstanding book, but somewhat mistitled [Posted on 2005-09-27]
If you're looking for a book on deduction and card reading overall in bridge, you may want to look at other books on the topic. If, however, you are looking for a great book on how to think as declarer, this is the one you want. Lawrence shows a number of inferences and techniques that are not obvious until one has had them explained. For instance, when a player does not lead from a suit in which you are missing the AKQ, that player likely does not hold AK or KQ. The idea of "card placing by assumption" is not so much card reading as it is proper play technique.

Lawrence has expanded tremendously on this topic in his "Counting at Bridge" software, but this book still provides great insight into how experts think about dummy play. Any novice or intermediate player will benefit.

One skill you MUST have to play better bridge  [Posted on 2006-01-06]
One key difference between intermediate bridge players and strong players is that intermediate players play their own cards well, while strong players play their own cards plus the opponents' cards well, as well. This book will teach you the critical skill of card location: how to determine which cards your opponents are holding based on what they bid (or didn't bid) and what they've led (or haven't led).

This book is small, but you're not buying based on word count. The knowledge is dense, with plenty of examples given as quizzes to help teach the material. Plan on reading the book carefully.

Have not received de item yet. Though I can't review. [Posted on 2006-07-14]
Imposible to do so with no item received

Bridge Clues [Posted on 2008-04-16]
It looks like it's filled with insight. The only problem is the pages are not properly bound and as I turn them, they fall out of the book.

Mike Lawrence, Bridge Sherlock [Posted on 2008-09-28]
I am an aggressive amateur player in retirement. Lawrence's first couple of chapters spoke directly to my mind set.

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