David Galt's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge PDF

By David Galt

ISBN-10: 047011424X

ISBN-13: 9780470114247

Tips. Trumps. Auctions. Contracts. Bridge is a difficult video game, yet you could fast grab its fundamentals with this consultant that indicates how it's performed. educate your self VISUALLY Bridge covers every thing from comparing a hand and bidding it via enjoying the playing cards and scoring the results—guiding you play by way of play and trick by means of trick. With this booklet and with perform as declarer or defender, you'll fast be enjoying your bridge playing cards correct. perhaps you'll even make a slam—doubled, redoubled, and vulnerable!

Concise classes exhibit you the keys to profitable play and are perfect for quickly review

textual content is helping to de-mystify bridge ideas, lingo, and traditions
every one approach or tactic is obviously explained
photographs assist you visualize techniques and construct your bridge skills
priceless information supply extra assistance

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You sit down next to the player sitting in the South seat, whose sorted hand you can see. East is the dealer, and so East is the first to bid in the auction. East can either pass or make the opening, or first, bid. K J 10 J 5 9 3 7 AK Q 9 10 J K 5 J3 With the bidding completed, it’s time for the play of the hand to get underway! 88 8 With these three passes, the auction ends. A final contract of 4♠ (four spades) has been reached. This means that North–South are seeking to win ten tricks, with spades as the trump suit.

Or just make up your own mnemonic! 5♣ 5♦ 5♥ 5♠ 5NT 6♣ 6♦ 6♥ 6♠ 6NT 7♣ 7♦ 7♥ 7♠ 7NT To make a higher bid in a lower-ranking suit, you must bid at a higher level. Compare these two auctions: West North East 1♥ pass 1♣ South Wrong West North East 1♥ pass 2♣ South Right A bid of 1NT is higher than a bid of 1♣, 1♦, 1♥, or 1♠. Indeed, at every level, a bid of notrump outbids any suit bid. For example, 3NT outbids 3♥. At any bidding level, a bid in notrump is higher than a bid of a suit at the same level.

54 HCP Guidelines for Part-Score, Game, and Slam . . . . . . . 55 Major Suit Opening Bids: 1♥ and 1♠ . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Minor Suit Opening Bids: 1♣ and 1♦ . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Opening 1NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 More Strategies for the Opening Bidder . . . . . . . . . . qxp 10/26/07 7:47 PM Page 48 General Hand Evaluation for Bidding You bid at bridge because you expect to win tricks after the play starts.

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