1/12/21 (69 min)
When Responder does not have enough values to make a 2/1 GF bid, they must strive to show both their strength and shape, while keeping the auction at a reasonable level.
12/5/22 (65 min)
The modern system for bidding when we have a fit for partner's minor, called inverted minors, works on improving our ability to look for game or slam in a minor suit -- which is the most common time we want to support a minor suit. Make sure you and partner have a good grasp of these methods, both for playing them and playing against them.
12/12/22 (66 min)
One of the most powerful tools we have in competitive bidding is the preemptive raise. When we have a minor suit fit the opponents will often have a major suit fit. We want to make it as difficult as possible for them to find that fit and using preemptive raises is one the best ways to make their life difficult.
12/19/22 (69 min)
There are certain minor suit hands that can play extremely well in NT contracts. If evaluated correctly these hands can be bid in a way that makes the auction relatively simple. Let's make sure that you do not torture your partner with these hands when you could keep it simple and get to the right contract.
12/27/22 (63 min)
When we have a good hand and a minor suit fit then we may want to explore a minor suit slam. Part of the art form of minor suit slam bidding is using tools to explore slam while keeping a NT contract in the picture. Here we look at how to use these tools and better judge our minor suit slam.
1/12/21 (69 min)
When Responder does not have enough values to make a 2/1 GF bid, they must strive to show both their strength and shape, while keeping the auction at a reasonable level.
1/19/21 (73 min)
We discuss the type of hands that want to compete over the opponent's notrump. We also look at how conventional systems like DONT help us to do so.
1/26/21 (77 min)
This week we discuss bidding again after we open 1NT. We'll review what we do when partner bids, but also focus on how we can further compete in the bidding if the opponents come in to our auction.
2/2/21 (74 min)
After partner opens the bidding 1NT, our primary objective is to look for a major suit fit. Here we look at our looks for doing so and how we use them with a large variety of different major suit shapes and strengths.
2/9/21 (90 min)
Some of the most difficult hands to describe, when responder to 1NT, are shapely hands. Here we look at how it will be a struggle to show our shapely hands when we are weak and how we will need some conventional bids/agreements to describe these hands and keep the auction below 3NT.
2/16/21 (76 min)
We look at how to deal with the opponents competitive bids after partner opens 1NT. We'll focus on the meaning of Double and also look at how we use 2NT as a conventional bid (Simple-sohl).