Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions The Ogust bridge convention is probably the most exact system of determining what the real possibilities are for a partnership in which one partner opens with a weak 2 bid but the other has a good hand. The weak 2 opener no … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Asking for a feature in bridge
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Asking for a feature in bridge is is one way to shift from an expected defensive role (when you or your partner have opened the auction with a weak 2 bid) to offense. There's a rule of thumb that if your partner opens with a … [Read more...]
Cue bids in bridge
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Cue bids in bridge can be used both on offense or on defense. Cue bids generally mean “I have everything BUT that suit” (the last suit bid by an opponent) and invites the partner of the cue bidder to pick any suit (or No-Trump if … [Read more...]
Cappelletti bridge bidding convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions The Cappelletti bridge convention is named after Michael Cappelletti, an Orlando, FL-based bridge guru who travels around the country and gives bridge lectures for sizable fees. It is designed to give players tools to mount a more … [Read more...]
Unusual 2 No Trump bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions The unusual 2 No-Trump bid is a defensive bid and an attempt to steal the bid away from opponents who probably have the majority of the high-card points – or at least they’ve opened the auction with a bid. The unusual 2 No … [Read more...]
Michaels bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions The Michaels bridge convention is used to steal the bid from a partnership that has started the auction with an opening bid and find out if opponents, who probably have the minority of high-card points, have any possibility of … [Read more...]
Negative doubles
January 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Negative doubles are a cheap way of exploring if there are defensive interference possibilities in a major suit. It is used only after an opponent has opened the auction. “Negative” in this case means that the bidder is NOT … [Read more...]
Voidwood bridge bidding convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Voidwood bridge bidding convention is an exotic bidding convention designed to find out if a Small Slam or perhaps even a Grand Slam is possible – even when the partnership may be missing an Ace (or in extreme cases maybe even two … [Read more...]
DOPI bridge bidding convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions People have invented conventions for practically every eventuality. The DOPI bridge bidding convention is not for dummies and has nothing to do with one of the seven dwarfs. It is, however, one of the most practical conventions to … [Read more...]
Blackwood bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions To explore the opportunity of playing a Slam, which can earn the partnership big points bonuses, one player in the partnership usually needs to have at least a stronger-than-average opening like a One No-Trump bid (minimum 15 … [Read more...]