For sure tricks, promotion and length tricks, we didn’t have to worry about the order the individual cards were played to a trick. We could think about them as blocks, a whole trick at a time. With finessing, we have to think about the order. To finesse is to take advantage of another playing before…

Length tricks are tricks that make by leading a suit when your opponents don’t have any cards left in that suit. Length tricks are dependent on how the suits break. Break refers to how the cards the opponents hold are distributed. If you had 4 spades in your hand and 3 in dummy, the opponents…

When you have a suit that doesn’t currently have sure tricks, you may be able to promote tricks. You promote tricks by getting the opponents to take their sure tricks, leaving you with sure tricks. Here’s a small example: Declarer: S Lead: N Diagram 1 Here you don’t have any sure tricks in Spades, but…

The easiest tricks to take in bridge are sure tricks. Sure tricks are tricks where you have the top honors (A, AK, AKQ, etc) in a suit, and enough length in at least one hand to cash them all […]