Return to the Bridge Burglar's Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions To minimize the possibility of going too high too fast, there are other variations of the Blackwood system using 4 NT as asking for Aces that attempt to convey more relevant information right away and still keep the bid as low as … [Read more...]
Bridge scoring
February 8, 2012 By 4 Comments
Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Contract Bridge Primer Contract bridge scoring: Here are the points scoring tables for contract bridge NT Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs 7 (13 tricks) 220 210 210 140 140 6 (12 … [Read more...]
Playing of the bridge hand
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Contract Bridge Primer After the contract has been determined, the players proceed to the playing of the bridge hand, to see how many tricks the offensive players can make and how that will relate to their prediction in the bidding (the contract). While all four … [Read more...]
The Auction
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Return to the Bridge Burglar’s Contract Bridge Primer Every hand of bridge starts with a auction. The purpose of the bridge auction (or the bidding) in contract bridge is to determine which pair will play on offense (or, in bridge terms, will try to make a contract), and which pair will play on … [Read more...]
Ogust bridge convention
January 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
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...]
Asking for a feature in bridge
January 27, 2012 By 114 Comments
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
January 27, 2012 By 26 Comments
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
January 27, 2012 By 25 Comments
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
January 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
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...]