The Bridge Burglar

The Continuing Adventures of a Contract-Stealing Bridge Vagabond

  • The home club
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    • Vero Beach Bridge Center
  • On the road
  • Flustered Flo
  • Lunchtime bridge
  • Bridge situations
    • 1340
    • 1430
    • 4th suit forcing
    • Asking for feature
    • Bergen raise
    • Blackwood
    • Cappelletti
    • Cue bids
    • Defensive bidding
    • DEPO
    • DONT
    • DOPI
    • Drury, reverse Drury
    • Finesse
    • Flannery
    • Gerber
    • Help Suit Game Try
    • Inverted Minors
    • Jacoby 2 No Trump
    • Jacoby transfers
    • Michaels
    • Negative doubles
    • New minor forcing
    • Lebensohl
    • Ogust
    • Opening leads
    • Precision
    • Puppet Stayman
    • Reverses
    • Roman Key Cards
    • ROPI
    • Slams
    • Smolen
    • Snapdragon doubles
    • Splinters
    • Stayman
    • Stolen bids
    • Support doubles
    • Texas transfers
    • Two-over-one
    • Unusual 2 No Trump
    • Unusual vs. Unusual
    • Voidwood
    • Weak preemptive bids

The Continuing Adventures
of a Contract-Stealing
Bridge Vagabond

Warning!

While the Bridge Burglar is serious about bridge, he's also serious about having fun. So if you take this blog too seriously, you'll be missing out on most of the good stuff.

Meet the Bridge Burglar

"Bridge Burglar" Pieter Vanbennekom is a bridge vagabond known for his swashbuckling playing style and his penchant for "stealing" contracts. Before becoming the Burglar, Pieter spent much of his life as a journalist, including stints as a UPI foreign correspondent.

Bridge resources

  • Bridge Burglar’s Contract Bridge Primer
  • Bridge Burglar’s Guide to Bridge Bidding Conventions
  • Duplicate Bridge: Glossary of Terms

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