Always Open 1NT/2NT – Even With a Five-Card Major By Marty Bergen

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Source: www.edmontonbridge.ca Whenever you have a balance hand and the appropriate point count, open 1NT/2NT. There are absolutely no exceptions. Do not be distracted by a five-card major. Life will...

A Just Decision by Fernando Lema

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Medellin, May 29 2016 Under the VI South American Transnational Championships, Medellin 2016 we present you the Hand of the day, in this case explained...

The Hidden Dummy by Mel Colchamiro

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Source: ACBL Most players learn early on that a way to make extra tricks is to “ruff losers in the dummy.” For example, if we have...

Competing without a known fit By Robson & Segal

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Source: Partnership Bidding at Bridge by Robson & Segal (Full Version) Introduction Up to this point, all your cooperative competing has been on the basis of a...

Count, Add, Substract By Shepard Barclay

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Source: The Free Lance-Star – 25 Feb 1946 Counting the known cards in a suit held by various players, next adding their amounts together and then subtracting...

Don’t Stop Counting When Auction Ends by Alfred Sheinwold

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Source: The Morning Record – 19 Sep 1964 During the action you count your points and add them to the, points shown by your partner’s bids. The total...

Counting the Hands by W. M. McKenney

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“Counting the hands” that is, determining the distribution of a suit in all four hands, is one of the things in bridge play which...

Maneuvers to Learn to Count the Hand by Tim Bourke

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Dealer: South North/South Vunerable A K J 10 2 A 4 3 2 K 3 5 3 --- K J 9 6 5 Q 10 8 6 Q J 9 2 9 8...

Useful Space Principle

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Source: Wikipedia The Useful Space Principle, or USP, was first articulated in a series of six articles in The Bridge World, from November 1980 through April 1981. (The...

Misfit hands Suggest Bidding at Low level

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Toledo Blade – 27 Jun 1971 by Nap Nassr Bridge students are taught that as soon as their bidding sequences give a hint of the possibility of misfit...
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