Pete's Bridge Blog: Lessons and Miscellany about Duplicate Bridge
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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