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Reference: \u00a025 Bridge Conventions You Should Know<\/a>, Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith, Chapter 13.<\/p>\n

This lesson is focused on auctions with a simple bid and raise of a major suit, either from responder raising opener’s major suit opening, or opener raising responder’s major suit response. \u00a0Examples: \u00a01H-2H and 1C-1H-2H.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you first learned bridge, you were taught that it takes _________ to bid a game. \u00a0After that you learned that when you find a ______ you can count your ___________ points to get to that number.<\/p>\n

After a while when you were playing you noticed two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. You would stay out of game because you “didn’t have enough points” while your good opponents were bidding and making games on 20 or 21 points.<\/li>\n
  2. You were bidding your games with the right number of points but going down when the opponents cashed the first _______ tricks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So how come some 20 point games make and some 28 point games go down? \u00a0It’s not \u00a0always ____ _______ points you have, it’s ______ those points ______.<\/p>\n

    Example:<\/p>\n

    North Hand: \u00a0S: Jxx\u00a0H: AQJxx D: AQxx C: x<\/p>\n

    South\u00a0Hand 1: \u00a0S: xxx\u00a0H: Kxxx D: Kxx C: QJx<\/p>\n

    South Hand 2: \u00a0S: KQx\u00a0 H: Kxxx D: xx\u00a0 C: xx<\/p>\n

    South Hand 3: \u00a0S: x \u00a0H: Kxxx \u00a0D: Kxxx C: xxxx<\/p>\n

    Opposite South\u00a0Hand 1 there’s no good chance to make 4S. \u00a0You’re off 3S tricks and the Club Ace. \u00a0Opposite\u00a0South Hand 2, which has one fewer HCP\u00a0you have a 50% chance for game if the Diamond King is onside. \u00a0Opposite South Hand 3, which has the least HCP of all, you have a good chance to make 5 and you are almost certain to make 4.<\/p>\n

    What\u00a0are the differences among South hands 1, 2, and 3 as they fit with the North hand?<\/p>\n

    South Hand 1 has no _____\u00a0and has the “death” holding of 3 small opposite North’s weak suit.<\/p>\n

    South Hand 2 has slightly better shape and fitting ______\u00a0opposite North’s isolated Jack.<\/p>\n

    South Hand 3 has _________\u00a0matching a weak suit in North and a weak suit matching shortness in North.<\/p>\n

    South Hands 2 and 3 are “______” to North, South Hand 1 isn’t.<\/p>\n

    Definitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A\u00a0game try<\/strong> is an ___________\u00a0bid proposing game but allowing the partnership to ____\u00a0_____ of game.<\/p>\n

    A\u00a0help suit game try<\/strong> asks about the holding in a specific ______, with the objective being to make sure there aren’t _______ losers in that ______ .<\/p>\n

    Examples of “help”:<\/p>\n