{"id":25159,"date":"2026-07-25T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/publication\/11th-card-discard\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:46:55","slug":"11th-card-discard","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/publication\/11th-card-discard\/","title":{"rendered":"11th card discard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contract is 2NT by west, north leads \u2665<\/span> <\/span>Q<\/p>\n

Carding -UDCA (Upside Count and Attitude)<\/p>\n

1)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2665<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>K \u2665<\/span> <\/span>7<\/p>\n

2)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>6 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>J \u2665<\/span> <\/span>10<\/p>\n

3)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>A \u2663<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>4 \u2665<\/span> <\/span>9<\/p>\n

4)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>J<\/p>\n

5)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>4 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>4 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>4<\/p>\n

6)\u2665<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>3 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>7<\/p>\n

7)\u2660<\/span> <\/span>6 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>7 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>10 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>J<\/p>\n

8)\u2663<\/span> <\/span>K \u2663<\/span> <\/span>6 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>2<\/p>\n

9)\u2663<\/span> <\/span>A \u2663<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2666<\/span> <\/span>7 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>3<\/p>\n

10)\u2666<\/span> <\/span>K \u2666<\/span> <\/span>6 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>8 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>10<\/p>\n

11)\u2666<\/span> <\/span>A \u2666<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2660<\/span>8\/ <\/span>\u2663<\/span> <\/span>J?<\/p>\n

What should be discarded? \u2660<\/span>8\/ <\/span>\u2663<\/span> <\/span>J?<\/p>\n

After 8th trick. west has shown up 5 HCP \u2663<\/span> <\/span>K \u2666<\/span> <\/span>J \u2660<\/span> <\/span>J<\/p>\n

west has 15HCP for the 2NT bid, so \u2663<\/span> <\/span>A\u2660<\/span> <\/span>A\u2666<\/span> <\/span>A\u2666<\/span> <\/span>K<\/p>\n

and the 5th card can be a \u2666<\/span> <\/span>or \u2660<\/span> (after 8 tricks)<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2666<\/span> <\/span>6 by north on 10th trick shows odd number of \u2666<\/span> <\/span>so remaining card with west is \u2660<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

so<\/p>\n

11)\u2666<\/span> <\/span>A \u2666<\/span> <\/span>2 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2663<\/span> <\/span>J<\/p>\n

12) \u2660<\/span> <\/span>A \u2660<\/span> <\/span>9 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2660<\/span> <\/span>8<\/p>\n

(if \u2660<\/span> <\/span>5 is played then last rick has to be given to north’s \u2666<\/span> <\/span>Q)<\/p>\n

13)\u2660<\/span> <\/span>5 \u2666<\/span> <\/span>Q \u2666<\/span> <\/span>10 \u2660<\/span> <\/span>K<\/p>\n

2NT \/west -120, +100 for north-south<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contract is 2NT by west, north leads \u2665 Q Carding -UDCA (Upside Count and Attitude) 1)\u2665 Q \u2665 2 \u2665 K \u2665 7 2)\u2665 3…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"language":[],"level":[450],"class_list":["post-25159","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","level-all-levels"],"acf":[],"publication_lang":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/25159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25159"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=25159"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=25159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}