The Bergen Raise provides the most effective way to support your partner’s major opening (One Heart or One Spade) when you have four-card support.
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Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part thirty-one
Traditionally, this Jump Shift was used to show a strong hand but not anymore. Why waste valuable bidding space?
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part thirty
Do you remember that a Cuebid is the bid of a suit in which you do not intend to play? It has a special meaning between you and your partner.
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part twenty-nine
Bids using the “Double” command have many different uses. This week’s Double is a Negative Double made by you. It follows partner’s opening at the one-level, and opponent’s Overcall interference. (You cannot Double your partner’s bid!)
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part twenty-eight
This week we look at the “Lead-Directing Double”. This is another type of Overcall that tells partner what is a good lead to your hand when he gets on lead.
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part twenty-seven
Consider making a bid of Two No-Trump if the opponents have opened the bidding, but you have good values in a two-suited hand (at least 5-4 in the lowest two of the other suits).
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part twenty-six
You make an Overcall for three reasons. You want to compete for a part-score or game. You want to suggest a possible lead for partner. You want to obstruct the opponent’s bidding.
Duplicate Bridge results and tip: Useful conventions worth learning, part twenty-five
You make an Overcall for three reasons. You want to compete for a part-score or game. You want to suggest a possible lead for partner. You want to obstruct the opponent’s bidding.
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