Bridge Bidding

Copyright 2010-2026 by Paul F. Dubois (pfdubois@gmail.com)

Nov 11, 2026

Link to information on Copyright, HTML, PDF, and E-Book Versions

Table of Contents

• 1. Copyright And Downloads
• 2. Preliminaries
• 3. Notation and Nomenclature
• 4. Hand Evaluation
• 5. Alerting and Announcing
• 6. Opening The Bidding
• 7. Planning The Auction
• 8. Notrump Openings
• 9. The 2N Opening Family
• 10. Responding To Minor Openings
• 11. Finding 5-3 and 4-4 Major Fits
• 12. Responding To Major Openings
• 13. The Strong Two Club Opener
• 14. Preemptive Opening Bids
• 15. Doubles
• 16. Competitive Bidding
• 17. Competing After A Suit Opening
• 18. Competing With Their 1N
• 19. General Defense to Two-Suited Bids
• 20. Balancing
• 21. Dealing With Distributional Hands
• 22. All About Jump-Shifts
• 23. Slam Bidding
• 24. Conventions
• 25. Lebensohl
• 26. Two Diamonds Conventions
• 27. Advanced Major Auctions
• 28. Advanced Major Raise Structures
• 29. Advanced One Notrump Structure
• 30. Advanced 2N Auctions
• 31. Advanced Responses to Two Club Openers
• 32. Advanced Checkback
• 33. Advanced Slam Bidding
• 34. Advanced Two-Suited Bids
• 35. Advanced Notrump Defenses
• 36. Advanced Jump-Shifts
• 37. Advanced Runouts
• 38. Advanced Transfers
• 39. Interesting Gadgets
• 40. Summary Tables
• 41. Glossary
• 42. Resources