Bridge Bidding

Copyright 2010-2024 by Paul F. Dubois (pfdubois@gmail.com)

Dec 13, 2024

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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. Responding To Minor Openings
• 9. Finding 5-3 and 4-4 Major Fits
• 10. Responding To Major Openings
• 11. 1N Forcing and 2/1
• 12. Opening Notrump
• 13. The 2N Opening Family
• 14. The Strong Two Club Opener
• 15. Preemptive Opening Bids
• 16. Doubles
• 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. Competitive Bidding
• 24. Slam Bidding
• 25. Conventions
• 26. Special Doubles
• 27. Lebensohl
• 28. Two Diamonds Conventions
• 29. Advanced Major Auctions
• 30. Advanced One Notrump Structure
• 31. Advanced 2N Auctions
• 32. Advanced Responses to Two Club Openers
• 33. Advanced Checkback
• 34. Advanced Slam Bidding
• 35. Advanced Two-Suited Bids
• 36. Advanced Notrump Defenses
• 37. Advanced Jump-Shifts
• 38. Advanced Runouts
• 39. Interesting Gadgets
• 40. Glossary
• 41. Resources