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Bidding
Bidding
How Should You Make a Bid

When it's you turn to bid:
  • Decide the call that you wish to make.
  • Move your hand to the bidding box.
  • Take the appropriate card(s) from the bidding box (the 'bid' together with the cards behind it).
  • Place them on the table in front of you.
It's as easy as that.  But most of us get it wrong some of the time.

What do we do wrong?
  • We move our hand to the bidding box before we have made up our mind.  We might even rest our hand on the bidding box throughout the bidding process.
  • We remove bidding cards, replace them, change our mind a few times before making a final choice.
  • We mutter something like "I don't know if this is right".

All of these are a no-no.

Players should decide what bid they intend to make before they reach for the bidding box.  To do otherwise might suggest to their partner that they have a hand that is borderline - this gives unauthorised information to partner and is against the rules.

An Example

Let's consider the auction 1-3 which you play as inviting to game (responder probably has 4 card support and 10-12 points) .  If you hold 15 points you would readily accept the invitation and rebid 4 - and then expect to go on and make the contract.

Now let's change the auction slightly:  1 - pause, er, um, takes out a bid, replaces it, dither, and finally 3.

The auction is the same and you would, of course, make the same rebid (wouldn't you?).  But how confident would you be this time?

Of course you don't actually know whether partner was hesitating between 2 and 3 (weak and invite) or between 3 and 4 (invite and game), but the example should be enough to get the point across.

Let's try and get the bidding mechanism right.

  • Choose your bid
  • Select the Bidding Card
  • Place it on the Table.
And Finally

All four players should leave their bidding cards on the table until a card has been played to the first trick and everyone has had their opportunty to ask any questions about the auction.  That is everyone apart from dummy.  Dummy should remain silent.