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	Matchpoint Tricks
	Ib Axelsen and Villy Dam
	A set of 58 declarer play problems highlighting the matchpoint pairs decision-making process. A few of the hands would be played different at IMPs (e.g., safety play vs. best chance for maximum results) but most of the material is also relevant to all forms of play -- when your contract is secure, finding your best chance for an overtrick is worthwhile at all forms of scoring, though the reward is smaller at IMPs and total points.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Deceptive Card Play
	David Bird
	Each book in the Bridge Technique Series highlights one aspect of declarer play or defense. The first chapters introduce simple practice hands and the underlying theory; later chapters show more complex variations and examples of how the experts have used the technique in tournament play. Great books for polishing particular aspects of your game, very readable.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eliminations and Throw-ins
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Entry Management
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Suit Contracts
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Reading the Cards
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Safety Plays
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge technique series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Squeezes Made Simple
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Lives up to its title. A very easy and readable introduction to the squeeze - not a complicated play at all, despite the mystique surrounding it. Bridge technique series. Out of print -- I have only one copy in stock!
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Tricks With Finesses
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Tricks With Trumps
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Endplays for Everyone
	David Bird
	Sequel to his popular book on squeezes, this book walks you step by step how endplays work and how to identify situations where they are useful. Loser-on-loser plays and strip squeezes are also covered.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Off-Road Declarer Play: Unusual Ways to Play a Bridge Hand
	David Bird
	Fourteen chapters of advice on how to handle unpleasant problems in the play of the hand when the easy "textbook" solutions don't apply: ways to reach an apparently entryless dummy, to unblock blocked suits, to cope with bad trump breaks, to rectify the count for a squeeze when the obvious way of giving up a trick is dangerous, and more.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Somehow We Landed in 6NT
	David Bird
	A collection of hands where real experts and not-so-experts bid 6NT and then had to find a line of play that gave them a chance of salvaging the board.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Bridge Squeezes for Everyone
	David Bird
	Explanations in layman's terms of how to prepare for and execute the most common varieties of squeezes, illustrated with example hands. "Yes, even you!"
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Suit Contracts
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Part of the new and enlarged "Test your bridge technique" series. A more advanced sequel to the original "bridge technique series" volumes.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Three Notrump in Depth
	Augie Boehm
	The Professor and Sally Fourth tackle "everyone's favorite contract," 3NT. The first half of the book is about bidding judgment -- whether to bid 3NT or four of a major, how to ask for stoppers and half-stoppers, when you can bid 3NT with a long running suit and less than 26HCP. The second half tackles planning the play.
	$13.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Maastrict Challenge
	Tim Bourke
	A set of challenging bridge puzzles drawn from actual deals played at the Maastricht world championships.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Great Hands I Wish I Had Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	100 Bridge Problems: Using Poker Tactics in Contract Bridge
	Mike Cappelletti
	Cappelletti's key message is that disciplined agression is the key to achieving maximum results in both poker and bridge. He has put together an array of hands covering everything from how high to preempt to choosing an attacking opening lead to preparing yourself for the possibility of psychic bids. Lots of food for thought!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Introduction to Bridge: Play of the Hand
	Audrey Grant
	a.k.a. "the Diamond Series." The basics of planning the play of the hand: counting winners and losers, pulling trump, the finesse, the hold-up play, and more. Often used as a textbook in beginning bridge classes. Teachers, inquire about bulk discounts.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Misplay These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A book in the Reese "over-the-shoulder" style... featuring entirely hands which were played wrong by good players, followed by an explanation of how the correct play could have been spotted in time with more careful thought.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Card by Card: Adventures at the Bridge Table
	Roy Hughes
	Watch over Canadian expert Roy Hughes's shoulder as he explains his thought processes on some tricky hands, and you too can learn to think like an expert!
	$18.95		By special order only

	Take All Your Chances at Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A collection of declarer-play problems, emphasizing the theme of identifying several possible ways of making your contract and finding the plan that maximizes your odds.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Take Your Tricks: 550 Declarer-Play Tips You Can Take to the Bank
	Eddie Kantar
	The title says it all! Back in print after a very long wait. One of Kantar's most popular books in the 1990s, and the advice on declarer play is as relevant today as ever.
	$17.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Topics in Declarer Play
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Newly released edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Logical Bridge Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	A collection of hands to hone your ability to find the winning line of play as declarer, based on deductions from the bidding and previous play. Starts out with common basic situations like "West didn't open the bidding, and has shown up with 9 HCP already, so East surely has the one ace I haven't seen yet" and "West's opening lead was the three of clubs, so he must not have an honour-sequence in any of the unbid suits" and shows how the experts can get so many of their seemingly blind guesses right.
	$16.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Improve Your Declarer Play at Notrumps
	Ron Klinger
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Play With the Champions
	Ron Klinger
	Rare out-of-print collection of bridge hands played by experts in international tournaments.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Read Your Opponents' Cards
	Mike Lawrence
	A systematic discussion of how to assemble clues from your opponents' bidding and early leads to enable you to place the unseen key cards like the experts do. A very readable introduction well worth reading twice!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques
	Guy Levé
	Perhaps the most complete catalogue of declarer-play techniques ever assembled. It opens with a summary of planning the play, then describes and shows an example of every known declarer play maneuver, from the mundane like suit establishment and the different kinds of finesses, through all sorts of endplays and coups to two dozen different kinds of trump squeezes. A great reference for the serious student of the game. List price $34.95! A fantastic collection of hands; I'd hate to see the cover price keep you from reading it.
	$29.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Probability and Information
	Robert MacKinnon
	Learn the math behind the simple rules like "eight ever, nine never" and "finesse into the preemptor." The Principle of Vacant Spaces, the Principle of Restricted Choice, and much more. Great emphasis placed on how to think about the hand as a whole, rather than merely looking at suits in isolation to find the best chance.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Play Unraveled: Recognition is Everything
	Freddie North
	A description and explanation of dozens of declarer play techniques, from the simple finesse up to the double squeeze, followed by a set of 58 problem hands. Rather than just asking you to plan the play, you are first asked to identify which technique is appropriate, and then how to use it. Great new approach to improving declarer play. Out of print and hard to find. A steal at $10 each while I still have copies.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play a Bridge Hand
	Bill Root
	"Not for the beginner or the expert, but great for the 90% of you in between," as it says in the preface. Hundreds and hundreds of practice hands illustrating how to play suit combinations, how to establish and maintain trump control, deciding which of two suits to play on. By the end of the book you work your way up to throwins and squeezes, and a chapter on special cases where you play the hand different at matchpoints than at rubber bridge.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Beat the Experts at Bridge
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 88 hands published in books and newspaper columns that were incorrectly analyzed by the original author. Get to enjoy a laugh at the expense of your favorite columnists and learn even more about the game while you do.
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Challenge Your Declarer Play
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 60 declarer play problems. Danny is careful not to give away the winning line by leading you up to the key trick and asking what card to play. The problems reinforce the importance of making a plan at trick one: count your winners and losers, carefully choose your goal and find the line of play most likely to enable you to succeed. A steal at $9.95, compared to most recently published quiz books!
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How Good is your Bridge?
	Danny Roth
	An outstanding collection of declarer play and defense problems. The book is divided into four equal quarters: instructional declarer practice hands, a declarer play quiz, instructional defense practice hands, and a defense quiz. Excellent material for both matchpoint and IMP/rubber bridge players: he takes time to discuss when a safety play is available and whether or not it should be taken.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	[needed]
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Watson's Classic Book on the Play of the Hand at Bridge
	Louis Watson and Sam Fry
	First written in the 1930s and revised in 1962, this is still the classic book on declarer play. Part I covers all of the basic principles (how to establish a suit, the finesse, the hold-up play, the crossruff) while Part II expands on these with topics like how to choose which of two suits to establish and an introduction to elimination plays.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

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