This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the types of hands an intermediate player might expect to encounter in a tournament. The various categories of hands presented will teach you when to use the dummy reversal, when to spurn a finesse, when to duck a trick, when to do the avoidance play and how to handle a defender’s singleton. The book will also teach you how to discard, how to unblock, how to deceive and how to handle transportation problems. Ken has published more than 15 bridge books. These books have now been consolidated into a series of 5 core tournament books as follows: Tournament Bridge for Beginning Players (4th ed. 2020), Tournament Bridge for Intermediate Players (5th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Advanced Players (4th ed. 2021), Tournament Bridge for Notrump Contracts (4th ed. 2020) and Tournament Bridge Tips on Defense (4th ed. 2020). These 5 core books have themselves been condensed into a two-volume set called The Complete Book of Bridge Hands, Volumes 1 and 2 (2nd ed. 2019). In addition, Ken has published two books on bidding, The Casey 2/1 Bridge Bidding System (4th ed. 2021) and The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed. 2021). Ken served as a Russian interpreter during the Vietnam War and then spent over 30 years practicing as a tax attorney. Ken also has an MBA in accounting and a CPA.
This book gives a comprehensive view of the various types of hands a beginning player might expect to encounter in a tournament.
This book is designed to give a comprehensive and systematic view of the hands an advanced player might expect to encounter in a tournament.
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system for opening majors. The Casey Reverse will enable the responder to know the opener’s point count within a 2p range after the opener’s rebid.
22: THE USE OF THE CASEY-JACOBY TRANSFER (CJT) TO SHOW R's 5-CARD MAJOR 23: THE CASEY OVERCALL 24: INTERFERENCE BY THE OPPONENTS 25: CUEBIDDING THE OPPONENT's SUIT 26: CHARTING THE CASEY BIDDING SYSTEM PART FOUR: THE CASEY SLAM ...
Fourth Edition 2021 Ken Casey. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to express my profound gratitude to Willie Fuchs, a bridge expert from New York City who contacted ... 2021), and The Casey Simplified Precision Club Bridge Bidding System (2nd ed.
This book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system whenever the opener bids a major suit. Five new conventions have been added to the 2/1 system. This book is also designed to improve your bidding of minor suit openings in 4 steps.
It is next best to lead the longer of equivalent strength majors. For example, the KJ10xx beats the KJ10x. A 5-card major with at least one honor is the preferred lead. This is true even if the suit is a broken sequence such as KJ9xx.
This is not a "Mom and Pop" book.
All you need for learning the world's favorite card game -- Designed to take you quickly past the basics--all the way to competence -- Plenty of tips and advice for intermediate players who want to improve
The second edition of this book incorporates the 2/1 Game Force bidding system. The book is designed to improve your bidding in 5 steps. The 1st step involves maximizing your use of the 2/1 system whenever you open with a major suit.