Sunday, April 28, 2024

An unknown Drury trick By Mike Lawrence

Source: June 2016 ACBL Bridge Bulletin   Many players use Drury, an excellent convention. This article will discuss an aspect of Drury...

Blackwood Convention

Source: ACBL Whole books have been written on the topicof ace-asking conventions, so the discussion of  Easley Blackwood’s concept in this column will be brief...

The Best System (Part 1) By Adam Kaplan

Source: Vesuvius Bridge Blog The Best System (Part 1 - Introduction and First 3 Systems) I came across a few very interesting questions today: "What is the...

Exclusion Roman Keycard Blackwood and other animals

Source:  "Exclusion" is normally defined as a jump to a non-trump suit above the keycard-ask. So, for example, if the auction goes 1--2--2--2--3--5, that would...

Tips for playing with BBO’s Robots – the basics by Peter...

Source: BBO Youtube Channel Peter Hollands is a very talented young bridge player who was a grand master at 23 and has represented Australia and Victoria...

Support Doubles By Joshua Donn

Source:  Bridge Winners  “Advanced players know the rules. Experts know when to break the rules.” - Anonymous Support doubles are one of my favorite conventions. The basic...

Bergen Responses to Gambling 3NT

From the book by Marty Bergen (1985), Better Bidding with Bergen — Volume One, Uncontested Auctions. 4 says let’s play in a Part Score 4...

Fourth Suit Forcing

Source: Wikipedia Fourth suit forcing (also referred to as fourth suit artificial; abbreviated as FSF or 4SF) is a contract bridge convention that allows responder to create, at his second turn to bid,...

I love Flannery (I’m serious) by Steve Weinstein

Source: BridgeWinners Flannery is defined as an opening bid of 2 to show  a mininum opening(11-16 HCP) with 4 spades and 5 hearts. We play it...

Conventions: Extended Smolen

Source: Aussie Youth Bridge Bulletin The Smolen Convention show 5-4 Majors with game-forcing values opposite a 1NT opening: 1NT 2 (Simple Stayman)  2 3 4 5 , game force 3 4 5 , game force We can...

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