Here we look at how to respond to partner’s 3-level preempt when they have taken away all our bidding space.

Here we take a look at how our bidding changes when we are passed hand.

Here we look at a variety of different meanings for 5NT — our grand slam bidding tool!

Here we discuss how to determine if slam is a good contract when we hold a void.

The Impossible Spade is a useful tool for helping Responder better describe their hand in constructive bidding.

Having good agreements about the meaning of bids at the 1-, 2-, and 4-level are common. Here we look at how to make use of the 3-level in a variety of different auctions.

Reverse Flannery is a good approach for using a 2-level jump shift by Responder to deal with some problem Major suit hands.

Here we look at how to how to use artificial rebid structures in minor suit auctions to allow us to better communicate with partner.

Here we look at how Responder can use jump shifts to 2H and 2S over 1m to describe some difficult hands and improve our constructive bidding.

This week we look at a tool for Responder to use for exploring slam after partner opens the bidding with a 2-level or 3-level preempt.

Transfer bids improve standard bidding in many ways.   They are frequently used by Responder in a variety of auctions, but here we look at how Opener can use transfer rebids in the auction that begins 1H (P) 1S (P) to better describe their hand while keeping the auction at a low level. 

A jump rebid of 2NT by Opener, showing a balanced hand with 18-19 points, takes up a lot of bidding space and can put pressure on Responder to show their hand and keep the auction below 3NT.  Here we look at a modern sophisticated approach to solving this problem - Wolff Signoff with Transfer Rebids!

1M - 3NT is a simple, descriptive, and valuable auction as long as you and partner agree on how best to use it.