Pete's Bridge Blog: Lessons and Miscellany about Duplicate Bridge
You are sitting North. You opened 1D in 3rd seat, East overcalled 1S, your partner raised to 2D, West cued 3D, and East signed off in 3S. The opening lead is is the Diamond 4 to the Queen King and…
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Example auction: 1D – 1S – 1NT. Should responder bid 2S on a 5 card suit and a minimal hand? I used to be of the opinion that responder should not, normally. Then I read the Robinson’s Roundtable article on…
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Next lesson will be Thursday 9/4. We’ll skip an extra week and the following lesson will be Thursday 9/25.
Hi all. Our next meeting is on the 21st of August. I’ll probably hit on a few small topics, without any specific theme. I expect to discuss: Handling interference in your 1NT auctions without resorting to stolen bid doubles (mostly)….
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There’s an axiom on defense, “don’t finesse partner”. What does that mean? Here’s an example: The contract is 1NT by North after an uncontested auction 1D-1S-1NT. East’s opening lead was the H6 to the 8 and K. The H2 was…
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Suppose you are the declarer and you need to hold this suit to 1 loser: Dummy: Q 6 4 2 Declarer: K 7 5 3 Looks fairly hopeless, right? Most of the time (probably 80% or so) you will lose…
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In Standard American or 2/1, opening 1 of a suit and rebidding 2 of a lower ranking suit doesn’t really limit opener’s strength very much. All we know is that opener doesn’t have enough to make a game-forcing jump shift….
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Update: I’ll be teaching Responder’s Rebids. You can find the worksheet here. Now is a good time to make plans to stay and play at the 11 AM game after the lesson. “Bigfoot”
The main question in deciding which minor to open is whether you want to rebid NT or not. If you aren’t going to rebid NT, say because you have a small singleton then you should probably open 1D. You won’t…
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At the club last night we had two auctions featuring a takeout doubler bidding his/her suit after partner’s response. The first hand was bid by our opponents, who got to the right spot in the…
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