Sublime

Walter’s first-edition copy of Kartenkünste, his favorite magic book.

Small cards frequently take tricks when attached to long suits (four or more cards in the suit).

Inter-Universal Teichmüller Theory.

Paul Gertner, a legendary sleight-of-hand artist in his fifties, held court in the close-up room and Jeremy insisted that we see him.

often skew the randomness so that

neither your hand nor the dummy has the ace in a particular suit, you can’t count any sure tricks in that suit.

Setting up a side suit by trumping small cards from the dummy entails certain risks. When you set up the small cards in a long suit, you often can’t draw trumps first because you may need trump entries to the dummy to reach your winners after you establish the suit. If the only entries to the dummy are in the trump suit, you can’t put the cart befo

Nine times out of ten, your partner’s response to your 2♣ opening will be 2♦. After those first two bids of 2♣ and 2♦, everything is on the up-and-up. You and your partner then start bidding suits you really have. When your turn to bid comes around again, bid your longest suit.