The Wednesday Game

May 7th

What is the

Wednesday Game?

On two Wednesdays each month (1st and 3rd) we send out a set of computer-dealt hands to Clubs around the country. After their Wednesday Game, players visit this site for the week’s Hand Analyses, Bidding Quizzes and Play Problems for the hands they have just played. There's nothing "tricky" about the hands, they are not doctored in any way, there's no attempt to make them more "interesting", they're all just as the computer dealt them.

Also provided in this site is a wealth of information in BridgeOpedia, and Wednesday Game Archives going back to early 2006.

Archives

From previous Wednesdays back to March, 2006

- Hand Analyses

- Bidding Quizzes

- The Ben Franklin Hand

The Play of the Hand Archives have been reorganized by topic, follow this link.

The Bidding Archives have also been reorganized by topic, follow this link.

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This Week’s Hands

Highlights include:

2. West pulls off a Triple Squeeze

5. East does some defensive unblocking

9. E-W engineer a trump promotion

22. East finds a throw-in

24. Some interesting suit combinations

31. North's turn for some defensive unblocking

North 8 9 16 21 30

South 3 7 17 25 27

Highlights include:

1. Overcall or Double?

9. East tries a matchpoint Double

10, 21, 27. Some super-accept problems

16. A more unusual 2NT

25. A New Minor Forcing follow-up

Play Problems

No new Play Problems this week, but if you are in the mood to improve your squeeze play, follow these Bridgeopedia links to our archives:

Basic Squeeze Technique

Double Squeezes

Throw-In Squeezes

Squeeze Defense

Bidding Six-Pack

Follow this link for a printable and abbreviated version of the Bidding Quiz. Six questions to test your bidding judgment and partnership agreements.

Convention of the Week

Follow this link for an informative bidding article, this week the convention is Weak Twos Part 3).

Declare & Defend

In this handout the focus is on card-play, two examples from this week's hands, one an an interesting declarer hand and another hand on defense. Follow this link.

BridgeOpedia

Convention Library
Dozens of helpful articles explaining the basics of commonly used conventions. Including Weak Twos, Jacoby Transfers, Stayman, Michaels, Unusual No Trump, Roman Key Card, Exclusion, Fourth Suit Forcing, New Minor Forcing, Bergen Raises, Two Over One, Drury, Support Doubles, Responsive Doubles, Maximal Doubles, Equal Level Conversion, and more.

Bidding Archives
We’ve gone through the entire history of The Wednesday Game looking for the most interesting hands, and organizing them into over 70 subjects, for convenient reference and study. For example, follow the link below to visit a collection of the Wednesday Game hands which best illustrate the Negative Double in action. And if you would like to see the entire index of subjects, please click here.

Play-of-the-Hand Archives
These cover different aspects of Declarer and Defensive play. Topics include Squeeze Play, Carding Agreement, Timing, Trump Control, Deception, Card Reading, and many others. Try this link as an example:
Blocking & Unblocking

To see the entire index of Play-of-the-Hand Archives please follow the link

New Schedule

The Wednesday Game is now on a 1st and 3rd week schedule, so we are back on May 21st. See you then!