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ITEMS BY JULIAN POTTAGE

	A Great Deal Of Bridge Problems by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$21.95~~ Discount Price: $17.56 You Save: 20% 293 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This popular book contains 177 bridge problems, each one fresher than the last. Julian Pottage has developed a well-earned reputation as a great problem constructor. His answers are sharp, to the point, and usually make you say, "of course." "...a delight to work through." and "...a top shelf, value-for-money bridge book."--Tim Bourke . . . read more.
	Back Through The Pack by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Discount Price: $15.96 You Save: 20% 266 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. One of today's most popular and successful bridge authors offers a sequel to one of the most popular and successful bridge books of all time. All fifty-two members of the pack have stories to tell and deuces and treys are attended to with the same respect accorded aces and kings. The cards are a bit more worldly than they were, but just as sentimental. Suspend your disbelief and travel to a timel . . . read more.
	Bridge Behind Bars by Julian Pottage • Marc Smith List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Discount Price: $15.96 You Save: 20% 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. "There was a loud metallic thud as the outside door closed behind Timothy Newman. So this is my new home then, he thought. Prison. Clink. The slammer. Prison is no place for an ordinary, law-abiding, middle-class guy like me, he reflected. Not even Great Yarborough Prison." But it turns out that prison life in Great Yarborough has a silver lining for Tim -- bridge. An expert player, he finds that . . . read more.
	Bridge Problems for a New Millennium by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Discount Price: $14.36 You Save: 20% 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this quiz book, British author Julian Pottage has compiled a set of challenges that will test the reader's ability both as declarer and on defense. The hands are organized by theme, so readers are able to concentrate on a particular aspect of card-play if they wish. . . . read more.
	Clues from the Bidding at Bridge by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Discount Price: $14.36 You Save: 20% 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Defenders invariably base their strategy on declarer's bidding. Yet so often declarers fail to return the compliment: they flail away without a thought of what the defenders have or have not done. Just one bid from an opponent may tip off declarer to the winning play - perhaps warning of a bad break or that a finesse is doomed. When the defenders have made several bids the declarer may be able to . . . read more.
	Defend Or Declare 72 Deals To Test Your Bridge Skill by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Discount Price: $14.36 You Save: 20% 144 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. How good an analyst are you? In 2003, Julian Pottage's Play or Defend won the IBPA Book of the Year award. Using an usual bridge problem format, it gave readers all four hands and challenged them to decide whether they wanted to play or defend. Almost ten years later, this sequel comprises 72 new problems, presented in the same fashion, and asking the same question: defend or declare? These are n . . . read more.
	Defend These Hands with Me by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Discount Price: $15.16 You Save: 20% 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Julian Pottage worked on a number of books with the late Terence Reese, and this one pays homage to a man who was certainly the best bridge writer of his time. One of Reese's classics, Play these hands with me, pioneered the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing. What that book did for declarer play, the present one will do for defense: the reader can follow the thinking of an expert player . . . read more.
	More Hocus Pocus by Erwin Brecher • Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$15.95~~ Discount Price: $12.76 You Save: 20% 210 pages. Paperback. Master puzzler Erwin Brecher teams up with top bridge problemist Julian Pottage to present as second collection of bridge problems, math brain-teasers and logic puzzles . . . read more.
	Play or Defend? 68 Hands to Test Your Bridge Skill by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Discount Price: $14.36 You Save: 20% 184 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is an unusual problem book in the style of Diosy's There Must Be a Way, in that the reader is shown all four hands and asked whether declarer or defense should prevail with best play. A fascinating challenge for the advancing player. . . . read more.
	Positive Declarer Play at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Discount Price: $15.16 You Save: 20% 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more.
	Positive Defense at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Discount Price: $15.16 You Save: 20% 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This book was originally published in 1985, and in this new edition is substantially revised and expanded. It is a collection of bridge problems designed to teach players how to think along the right lines at the bridge table. Anyone who absorbs even a fraction of the ideas presented here will himself making contracts that might have been defeated, and defeating contracts that might have been mad . . . read more.
	The Extra Edge in Play at Bridge by Terence Reese • Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$16.95~~ Discount Price: $13.56 You Save: 20% 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess champion, once said: "You have found a good move - fine - now look for a better one." The same advice holds true in bridge. If you settle for second best, you will not achieve your full potential. Through a series of problems that are both fresh and a genuine test of skill, the reader is offered the chance to become accustomed to looking for that extra edge. Whe . . . read more.
	The Golden Rules for Rubber Bridge Players by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Discount Price: $9.97 You Save: 50% 144 pages. Paperback. Rubber bridge is the world's most widely played social game. This book shows, in a series of clearly expressed rules, how bidding and play in rubber bridge differs from duplicate bridge. Whether you want to win more often or simply enjoy your playing more, this is the book for you. . . . read more.
	Why You Still Lose at Bridge by Julian Pottage List Price: ~~$21.95~~ Discount Price: $17.56 You Save: 20% 222 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. S.J. Simon's classic Why You Lose at Bridge, dispensing advice to the improving player through archetypical bridge characters such as Futile Willie, the Unlucky Expert, and Mrs. Guggenheim, is regarded as one of the best books ever written on the game. In this follow-up book, Julian Pottage uses the same approach to discuss common failings of modern club players--misdescribing your shape, overval . . . read more.