Lesson Hands 

These are actual hands from club play that help us improve (even if it is the hard way sometimes).
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Categories:
A - Defense, B - Bidding, C - Declarer Play, D - Duplicate Strategy
* - more advanced      ! - very advanced

Category	Number	Title	Concept
B	Lesson 29	"Mirror, Mirror, Evil Queen"	The Reverse
B	Lesson 28	"Wallow, Miss Piggy"	Knowing When Not To Push
B	Lesson 27	"Once Tricky, Twice Dumb"	Bidding the Same Values Twice
C	Lesson 26	"Turn Off The Tap"	Transfer The Ruff
B	Lesson 25	"It Only Hurts for a Minute"	Takeout Doubles
B*	Lesson 24	"Screech or Crash"	Duplication of Value
A	Lesson 23	"Is it really all about me?"	Defending No Trump
B	Lesson 22	"A Rose Is A Rolls"	Three-Suited Situations
C*	Lesson 21	"The Gayest Hand Going"	Squeeze and End Play
C	Lesson 20	"Surprise, Surprise"	End plays
D	Lesson 19	"Getting to Carnegie Hall"	Defensive Strategy, IMPs
D	Lesson 18	"Great Expectations"	Close Doubles at IMPs
A*	Lesson 17	"Holding Down the Fourth"	Returning Partner's Notrump Lead
C *	Lesson 16	"Holdup in Dallas"	The Holdup Play
C !	Lesson 15	"Luck, Schmuck!"	Trump Coup a.k.a. Trump End Play
C *	Lesson 14	"I, Dummy"	Dummy Reversal
C	Lesson 13	"Polar Bear Spots"	More Declarer Play, Notrump
C	Lesson 12	"The Race"	Basic Declarer Play, Notrump
B	Lesson 11	"The Captain and The Deal"	Taking Charge of the Auction (or not)
A	Lesson 10	"Attitude"	Defensive Suit Signals
B	Lesson 9	"The Misfits, 2001"	Misfitting Suits
C *	Lesson 8	"Eliminate This"	Elimination and Throw-In
C	Lesson 7	"The Do Hand - The Don't Hand"	Basic Declarer Play, Suits
B	Lesson 6	"Cardburn"	The Super Notrumps
B	Lesson 5	"The L.O.L. Double"	Takeout Doubles
B	Lesson 4	"Charles's Favorite"	Grand Slam Force
B	Lesson 3	"Hands That Grow"	Responder Count
B *	Lesson 2	"Blackwood's Dead End"	Cue Bidding
B	Lesson 1	"The Ugly Club"	Short Club