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u/mlahut ยท 2 pointsr/bridge

Peter Hollands runs a good channel. A lot of education in bridge comes from discussion; you won't even realize what you're missing until someone points something out, you have a "wow" moment, and now you have another book you need to buy. Or something.

One thing I find mildly annoying about Peter Hollands' channel is that a handful of his inferences come from "because I know my opponent is a skilled player, if he had X card, he would have switched to a spade here". This is the time where he loses me, because I've seen enough silly plays from opponents that I have seriously concerns about using those kinds of stepping stones unless I'm in a strong field.

To answer your original question though, bridge has a lot of different kinds of skills and you sometimes need to address them independently.

Bidding problems are one avenue (though really, you should take 100+ from a book or other single source, not splashes of 5 in the newspaper).

Squeeze plays are one thing that I struggle with, but having them presented in a book doesn't always help; because real life problems are not so conveniently labelled.

One book I have enjoyed is Kantar's Take All Your Chances at Bridge, which specializes in probability analysis. On each (single-dummy) problem there is a fairly obvious solution with a 25-50% probability of success, but the puzzle is to find the best improvement. Maybe you can improve it to 75%, maybe 100%, but there's always some refinement available. This is a useful skill to apply in the wild as well.