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Read hundreds of bridge bidding conventions used in contract bridge. Blackwood, limit raises, and more exotic bids are explained in detail.
- Maximal Double
With a stronger hand (15-17 points), you want to bid 3 as an...
- Lebensohl
Lebensohl is a bidding convention used when the opponents...
- Ogust
Ogust is a conventional 2NT response to a weak two bid or...
- Responsive Double
In their excellent book "Modern Bridge Conventions", Bill...
- Strong Jump Shifts
Meaning; Raising partner's suit: At least 3-card support....
- Minor Suit Transfers
Meaning; Pass of 3: A weak hand with at least 6 diamonds. 3...
- Maximal Double
We say suggests because of the good-old “Five and Dime” rule – as responder we should have a 5 card suit and 10+ points to respond in a new suit at the 2 level.
The word “convention” in bridge refers to a bid, or a series of bids, which have an artificial meaning; that is, the bid does not mean what it would literally appear to mean. You should know that when a convention giveth, it taketh away something else.
This sheet is an overview on the controversial subject of bridge conventions. I offer some recommendations as to what I feel are good conventions, and a few other tips which may help you improve your partnerships.
Opener rebids 2NT with no four-card or longer minor suit, rebids 3 or 3 with one four-card minor suit, and rebids the longer major — 3 or 3 — with four cards in both minor suits. The 2 response can also be used when responder holds a five-card or longer minor suit and is interested in slam.
A splinter bid is a way of agreeing partner’s suit, limiting your hand, and showing a shortage in a specific side suit, all at the same time. That’s a lot of information to be conveyed in one bid, and it needs to be since a splinter takes up a great deal of bidding space. You can use splinters in numerous situations.
A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game convey information about the player's card holdings.
