A hand played at the Coventry Club recently illustrates why authorities unanimously advise against opening a singleton trump, specially if it is a trump honour.
More men than women are rugged individualists as bridge players. Many men resent the idea of playing according to rule and convention. A correspondent sends a hand bid and played by a friend of his to whom "the king is always one honour-trick; sometimes the queen is. If he has three or more face-cards in his hand he raises. His favorite lead is from an A-Q combination; he leads the queen." However that may be, the rough-and-ready style brought good 10965 som 47872 9873 0941057 O87 i 4 97 4743 _booru $ J92
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