There are two good excuses for not leading the suit your partner opened:
having no cards in the suit, and sudden death.
This section lists all of the PowerPoints available in the HC Bridge Club. When selected they will open in a new window . As most of the PowerPoints have animations, click in the slide area to get the best effect (not on the slide advance buttons at the bottom unless you want to go back to a particular slide).
| Basic use of the Crib Sheet and Bidding Box |
This presentation graphically explains the roles of players, the terminology and relates the bidding to the HC Crib sheet. It also contains a video at the end which explains how to use the Bidding Boxes.
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| Bidding |
This PowerPoint explains the basics of Bidding, listening to your Partner, Weak 2 bids, Pre-empt bids and strong hand bids.
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| Stayman |
The Stayman bid should be used in response to a NT opening by partner if you have 11+HCP and a 4-card major to see if you have a 'Fit' in any of the Majors. If you have 5+ card Major you should use Transfers.
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| Transfers |
The use of Transfers is predominately used to make sure that the stronger hand in the partnership plays the contract. They can be used as a weak takeout or to better describe you hand when you have a 5+ card Major or a 6+ card Minor.
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| Losing Trick Count |
When you have found a 'Fit' for a suit contract, you can use the Losing Trick Count (LTC) to accurately determine what level of contract you should be in. The LTC is an alternative, and more accurate method than using High Card Points to gauge the contract level.
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| Leads |
This presentation describes the best leads for the defence to make when defending both Suit and NT contracts. It also give advice on determining the layout of hands, what card is in which hand and also the best strategy to adopt as Defence.
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| Cards and Signals |
This presentation explains the use of the Bidding Box Alert and Stop cards and then explains some of the signals that can be used in a partnership during play to indicate to partner which card to play.
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