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     The Convention Card Topics:
    Notrump Opening Bids:
    Stayman:
  • Stayman and the Danger Hand
  • Stayman and 4-4 in the Majors


  • Stayman and 5-4 in the Majors


  • Stayman with a five-card minor
  • Stayman with a five-card minor revisited


  • No Stayman with a flat eight points
  • Stayman Hand Grows with a Fit


  • Bidding Stayman with nothing
  • Stayman And A Minor Suit Slam


    • Transfers:
  • Transfers with a five-card major
  • Transfers with a six-card major


  • Transferring with five-five in the majors
  • Transferring with six-four in the majors


  • Texas Transfers
  • Transferring during Competition


  • Super-acceptance Finds a Bust Hand
  • A Bust Hand Jumps to Game in Hearts

    • Notrump and the Minors:
  • Using A Minor Suit Runout
  • Inviting with a long minor
  • Revisiting Stayman but for the minors


    • Notrump Slams:
  • A slam try over notrump and a safety play
  • Looking for slam with Gerber


  • Quantitative Try for Slam
  • Super-acceptance helps to find slam

    • Interference Over Notrump:
  • Opponents Cannot Keep Quiet Revisited
  • Stayman In Competition
  • Invitational Stayman In Competition


  • Two-Level Over Notrump Competition
  • Double Over Opponent's Notrump

    • Notrump Miscellaneous:
  • Opening 1NT with 18 points is not done
  • Opening Notrump with a five-card major


    • Two Notrump:
  • Opening Two Notrump
  • Responding to two notrump with a six-card Minor


  • Responding to two notrump with a five-five hand


    • Major Openings:
  • A Simple Raise of A Five-Card Major
  • Do not skip a four-card major
  • Limit raise of a major


  • Forcing raise of a major
  • Forcing Major Raise
  • Forcing Major Raise Revisited
  • Splinter Bids


  • Weak Raise Of A Major To Game
  • Five-Card Support Falls Short of Game


  • Invitational Cuebid


    • Minor Openings:
  • Opening a Better Minor
  • Simple Raise of a Minor
  • Limit Raise of a Minor
  • Inverted Minor Raise


  • Inverted Minor Raise Revisited


  • Avoiding 3NT without a stopper
  • Finding 3 NT with an inverted minor raise


  • Responding With Five-Four In The Majors
  • A Weak Response With Five-Four In The Majors


  • A Weak Response With Any 5-card suit
  • Bid A Long Minor After 1NT


    • Strong Hands:
  • A strong hand shows a reverse
  • Lie About Your Length Not Points
  • Strong Jump Shifts


  • Almost Game in One Hand
  • Waiting For The Strong Hand
  • A Positive Response


  • A Bust Hand Opposite A Strong Hand
  • A Safety Play


  • Not A Two Club Opening


    • Weak Two's:
  • Weak Two's Are Very Effective
  • Third Seat Weak Two's Are Disruptive
  • Ask For A Feature
  • Ask For Suit Quality


  • New Suit Is Forcing


    • Other Conventional Calls:
  • Weak Jump Shifts
  • Western Cuebid
  • Fourth Suit Forcing
  • New Minor Forcing


    • Notrump Overcalls:
  • Notrump Overcall
  • Notrump Overcall With A Four-Card Major
  • Balancing Notrump
  • Unusual Notrump


  • Sandwich Notrump
  • Strong Unusual Notrump


    • Special Doubles:
  • Takeout Doubles
  • Takeout Doubles Revisited
  • Further Takeout Doubles


  • Negative Doubles
  • Negative Doubles Revisited


  • Penalty Doubles
  • Penalty Double After A Pre-empt
  • Penalty Double After A Fit


  • Penalty Double After A Takeout Double


  • Penalty Double With A Balance of Power
  • Penalty Double With A Balance of Power Revisited


  • Forcing Pass
  • Trap Pass
  • Penalty Conversion
  • Reluctance To Take The Double Out
  • Double After A Redouble


    • Simple Overcall:
  • Overcall At The One-Level
  • Overcall At The Two-Level
  • Overcall Cuebid


  • Balancing


    • Defense versus Notrump:
  • Balancing Over Opponent's Notrump
  • Transfers Over Opponent's Notrump
  • DONT Over Opponent's Notrump


  • Landy Over Opponent's Notrump
  • Takeout Over Opponent's Transfer


    • Over Opponent's Takeout Double:
  • Bidding Over Opponent's Takeout Double
  • Redouble Over Opponent's Takeout Double


  • Jump Over Opponent's Takeout Double
  • 2NT Over Opponent's Takeout Double
  • SOS Redouble


    • Opening Pre-empts:
  • Higher Pre-empts
  • Higher Pre-empts Revisited
  • Higher Pre-empts with a Side Fit


  • Higher Pre-empts with a Misfit


  • Takeout Over Four Hearts
  • Takeout Over Four Spades


    • Direct Cuebid:
  • Direct Cuebid
  • Misguided Direct Cuebid


    • Slam Conventions:
  • Roman Keycard Blackwood And Queen Ask
  • Cuebid Slam
  • Grand Slam




    • Beginner Bridge Topics:
  • Let's Learn Bridge
  • Looking For a Golden Fit
  • Finding a Golden Fit


  • Adding Bidding to Whist
  • Grand Slam
  • Five Card Majors
  • Rule of Twenty


  • Takeout Double
  • Better Minor Opening
  • Taking Away Bidding Room
  • Simple Response


  • Limit Raise of a Major
  • Limit Raise of a Major Revisited
  • Limit Raise in a Minor or Notrump


  • Take Me Out of 3NT with a Void
  • Forcing Raise in a Major
  • Jacoby 2NT
  • Feedback on 136


  • Dummy Reversal
  • Splinter Bids
  • Tricks, Not Points
  • Tricks, Not Points Revisited


  • Forcing Raise in a Minor
  • Game Forcing Inverted Minors
  • 7NT WIth 15 Winners


  • Leniency for Stretching
  • Invitational Inverted Minors
  • Never Defend With This Hand


  • Weak Inverted Minors
  • Simple Response Revisited
  • Killing Dummy's Entry


  • A Review of Suit Openings
  • A Further Review
  • A Grand from 2013 Trail Sectional



  • One Notrump Opening
  • Stayman
  • Transfers
  • Not a Jump Rebid in Notrump


  • One Notrump Overcall
  • New Suit at the Two-Level
  • Quantitative and a Squeeze


  • Weak Two's
  • Too Strong to Preempt
  • Minor Suit Transfer
  • Invitational Minor Over 1NT


  • Favourable Placement of Points
  • 4NT-Not Ace Ask
  • Leading Against 3NT


  • Exploring for 6 or 7
  • Bidding in Competition: The Overcall
  • "Tell Me More" Cuebid


  • One Diamond Overcall


    • More Advanced Bridge Topics:
  • Mexican Two Diamond Opening
  • Mexican Two Diamond Opening Revisited
  • Mexican Two Diamond Opening Again


  • Intermediate Two Diamond Opening
  • Flannery Two Diamond Opening
  • Roman Two Diamond Opening


  • Transfer Weak Two's
  • A Mexican Grand



  • Puppet Stayman
  • More Puppet Stayman
  • Two-Suited Hand



  • Changing Overcall Suit at the Two-Level
  • Changing Overcall Suit at the Three-Level



  • Major Invitation & Cross-Ruff
  • Invitation in Competition & Dummy Reversal
  • Trump Coup
  • End Play
  • Squeeze Play


  • Flip Flop
  • Negative Double
  • Lead Sets Cold Slam
  • End Play-Discarding Type (Bergen Raises)
  • Nice Slam- BBO hand


  • Rise With Ace of clubs
  • Switch to the King of Diamonds
  • Play Through an Ace


  • Unfavourable Sacrifice
  • End-Play-FinessingType
  • Get Right To It
  • Reverse Bergen Raises


  • Minisplinters (Stiff opposite Nothing)
  • Minisplinter (stiff opposite values)
  • 3NT not 4 Hearts


  • Don't be Pre-empted
  • Competition At The Highest Level
  • Two-Suited Slam


  • Adios Mexican Two Diamonds
  • Now That We Have Said Adios


    • Slam Bidding Topics:
  • Ciao to the Italian Style
  • More Fun With Slam Bidding
  • Slam Gadgets



  • Pick a Slam Partner
  • Exclusion in Bridge
  • Adding Slam Forces to your Arsenal


  • Small Slam Forces Work Well With a Void
  • Specific Kings
  • Jacoby with a Flair



  • Serious 3NT
  • The Last Train
  • Last Train In Competition


    • Competitive Bidding Topics:
  • Last Train In Competition
  • Using The Law of Total Tricks
  • Misfit With Partner
  • The Double Fit


  • Double Fit With Jacoby
  • Holding Opponent's Suit
  • Making Use of Competition


  • Overcalling When Both Opponents Have Bid
  • An Unusual Pre-empt
  • Direct Action Over a Weak Two


  • Balancing Action Over a Weak Two
  • Balancing Action Over a Weak Two Revisited
  • Adventurous EHAA


  • Adventurous EHAA Revisited
  • Adventurous EHAA Once Again
  • Direct Action Over a Weak Three


  • Balancing Action Over a Weak Three
  • Weak No Trump
  • Weak No Trump Revisited
  • Slam Try Cuebid


  • Western Cuebid


    • Lying in Bridge Topics:
  • Lying in Response with One No Trump
  • Rebidding A Major with 5
  • Rebidding Three Clubs


  • Rebidding a Minor with 5-Singleton
  • Rebidding a Minor with 5-No Stopper
  • Five Clubs and Four Diamonds


  • Six Hearts and Five Spades-Minimum Opener
  • Six Hearts and Five Spades-A Reverse
  • Lead Inhibiting Bid


  • Weak Two with Five



    • Two-Over-One Bidding System Topics:
    Game Forcing Bids:
  • Over 1H-5Clubs 4 spades
  • Over 1H-4Clubs 4 spades
  • Over 1S-2H


  • 2C over 1D
  • Two Over One in Competition
  • Two Over One by a Passed Hand


  • Why Two-Over-One?
  • 5clubs ten Points-Partner opens 1D


    • Forcing No Trump:
  • The Workhorse-Forcing No Trump-1S-1NT-2D
  • 1H-1NT-2C-Flannery Hand-Playing in 2C


  • Slam Both Ways
  • Self-Sufficiency
  • Mexico Not 3NT is a Destination



  • 1S-1NT-2NT- Rebidding Two No Trump
  • Four-Card Limit Raise
  • Three-Card Limit Raise


  • Three-Card Limit Raise-Reassessment
  • Standard American Major Raise Preference


    • Slam Tidbits:
  • Small Slam Force Revisited
  • Cuebidding The Standard Way


    • What I Prefer Opponents Do Not Do:
  • What I Prefer My Opponents Do Not Do
  • Pre-empter Bids Again
  • Now Clubs Are Longer


  • Partner Raises Pre-empt With Limited Defense
  • Pre-empter Disrupts Blackwood
  • Pre-empter Doubles


  • Overcall Three Spades
  • Overcall Two Spades
  • Stayman with a Flat Hand


    • Kit Woolsey Topics:
  • Last Guess
  • Trap Passing
  • The Battleground
  • Double Flaw Situations
  • Nuisance Bids


    • New Minor Forcing:
  • NMF
  • NMF Revisited
  • NMF Implication
  • Two Club Opener Strives to Rebid Two No Trump


    • Fourth Suit Forcing:
  • FSF
  • FSF Revisited


    • Reverse Flannery:
  • Reverse Flannery Simple Response
  • Invitational Reverse Flannery


    • Inverted Minors:
  • Showing Stoppers With Inverted Minors 1
  • Showing Stoppers With Inverted Minors 2


  • Showing Stoppers With Inverted Minors 3
  • Showing Stoppers With Inverted Minors 4


  • Weak Inverted Minors Landing in Three No Trump
  • Very Weak Inverted Minors Bypassing Three No Trump


    • Jumps:
  • Splinters after a Two-Over-One Rssponse
  • More Splinters
  • Weak Jump Shift-Do Nothing Partner


  • Jump Shift in Two-Over-One


    • Bergen:
  • Bergen Raises
  • Bergen in Competition
  • Bergen after Partner Overcalled

    • Miscellaneous:
  • Killing Dummy's Entry
  • Run Out to a Weak Suit
  • Don't Let Them Play
  • Defense is Hard
  • 3NT or 5C


  • The Forcing Game


    • Back 2 Basics:
  • Opening 1NT
  • Transfers
  • Five-Card Majors
  • Two 5-card Majors
  • Better Minor
  • Two-Suited Grand


  • 4-4 Better Than 5-3
  • 5-5 Better than the Points
  • 6-4 Better than the Points
  • 7-Card Suit Better than the Points


  • Think of a Rebid
  • Bidding Three Suits Shows Shortness in the Fourth Suit
  • Moysian Play
  • Raising With Three


  • Moysian Play 2
  • Partner Passes
  • Using the Feature which Made Partner Bid
  • Using Help Suit as a Slam Try


  • Pulling 3NT is a Slam Try
  • Slam Depends on the Suit
  • Ain't It Grand
  • A Cool Grand
  • Defensive footprint
  • A Timid 5C


  • Choosing the Right Grand
  • Got Their Suit
  • Still Got Their Suit Means No Trump
  • Still Got Their Suit Means Trap Passing


  • Michael's Cuebid
  • Western Cuebid
  • Support Cuebid
  • Overcall Cuebid
  • Unusual
  • Sandwich
  • Pre-empt a Pre-empt

















































































































































































































































































































































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