Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Reverses are an offensive bidding mechanism to indicate to your partner that you have more than a minimum opening, to be more aggressive to reach a possible Game or maybe even more. In Standard American, a “reverse” is defined as … [Read more...]
Unusual vs. unusual bridge convention
June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is an offensive bidding convention designed to deal—and defeat -- with the often problematic interference bid of 2 No-Trump after an opening in a major suit. Such a 2 NT interference bid promises a distribution of at least … [Read more...]
Puppet Stayman bridge convention
June 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is an offensive bidding convention used only after a strong 2 No-Trump opening bid, indicating a balanced hand with 20-21 high-card points, designed to find a 5-3 or a 4-4 fit in a major suit to play a Game contract in either … [Read more...]
Texas transfers bridge convention
June 15, 2012 By 43 Comments
Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions Everything’s big in Texas, so Texas transfers are big transfers. Under the normal Jacoby transfers, the responder to a 1 No-Trump opening bid says 2 Diamonds if he has 5 Hearts and 2 Hearts if he has 5 Spades. This is to ensure … [Read more...]
Splinters bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is an offensive bidding convention designed to force the auction to Game level in an established trump suit (and keep the door open to Slam ) taking advantage of shortness in one of the two partners’ hands with a void or … [Read more...]
Smolen bridge convention
June 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is an offensive bidding convention used after a 1 No-Trump opening to find a Game fit in either of the major suits (or default to 3 NT), and to ensure that the big hand of the 1 NT opening bidder will remain hidden as the … [Read more...]
DEPO bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is an offensive bidding convention designed to deal with interference during the process of asking for Aces with Blackwood, Gerber or Roman Key Cards (RKC) conventions. It is an acronym that stands for Double=Even, … [Read more...]
ROPI bridge convention
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Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is another one of the offensive conventions designed to thwart opponents’ interference with the asking-for-Aces (or keycards) process using the Gerber or Blackwood conventions or one of its variations. This particular … [Read more...]
DONT bridge convention
June 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions This is a defensive bidding convention for the purpose of preventing the opponent from finding a good fit after one of them has opened with a One No-Trump bid. If the opponents find a fit of their own in some suit, or the … [Read more...]
Hot and heavy bridge action in Sin City
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
LAS VEGAS - I knew from past experience that Las Vegas Bridge World on West Flamingo Road in Sin City is a tough place to play. They’re cardsharps in much more than poker over there and usually nothing but A players show up so that the stratification for the B and C classes lies incredibly … [Read more...]