Bridge bidding conventions
The Pattaya Bridge club website has a great bridge bidding conventions section with everything easy to print. There are also free weekly news sheets with hand analysis and quizzes.
Bridge conventions, old and new
Hundreds of bridge conventions are clearly defined
- Baby Blackwood
- Baron 2NT
- Baron two spades
- Baron three clubs
- Bergen Raises
- Cappelletti
- Checkback Stayman
- Compressed Transfers
- Constructive raises
- Crawling Stayman
- Crowhurst two clubs
- cue bids
- DAB - Directional Asking Bids
- Delayed Game Raise
- DOPI and ROPI (and DEPO and REPO)
- DONT - Double Opponent's No Trump
- Drury
- Dutch Acol (4 card majors and a strong NoTrump)
- Exclusion Blackwood
- Fishbein
- Flanery two diamonds
- Forcing No Trump
- Four way transfers
- Fourth suit forcing
- Fruit Machine Swiss
- Gambling three No Trumps
- Game tries
- Garbage Stayman
- Gerber
- Ghestem
- GNATS
- Granville
- Hamilton
- Help-suit game try
- Jacoby transfers
- Jacoby transfers to the minors
- Jacoby 2NT
- Jordan 2NT
- Jump cue bid overcall
- Kickback
- Kokish relay
- Landy
- Lavinthal - aka McKenny
- Leaping Michaels
- Lebensohl
- LTC - the Losing trick Count
- Michaels cue bid
- Mini Roman
- Mini splinter
- Minor suit Stayman
- Muiderberg
- Multi two diamonds
- Interference over your Multi 2d
- Namyats
- Negative double
- Niemeijer
- Odds and Evens
- Ogust
- Ogust over partner's weak jump shift
- Pottage
- Puppet Stayman
- Responding to Stayman with a void
- Responding to partner's strong 2 clubs opening
- Responding to partner's weak two opening
- Reverse
- Revolving discards
- Roman two diamonds
- Rule of 2,3,4 - Culbertson's guide for pre-empt openings
- Rule of 11 - used with 4th best leads against no Trumps
- Rule of 15 - used for marginal 4th seat openings
- Rule of 20 - used for marginal openings in 1st or 2nd seat.
- Sandwich No Trump
- Smith Echo
- Smolen
- Splinters
- Stayman
- Strong twos
- Support double
- South African Texas Transfers
- Swiss
- Three No Trump rebid
- Texas transfers
- Trial bid - aka game try
- Truscott defence to a strong 1 club opening
- Quest transfers
- Truscott 2NT - aka Jordan 2NT
- Unassuming cue bid
- UNT - the Unusual No Trump
- Walsh
- Weak Jump Shifts
- Weak twos
- Western cue bid
Bidding conventions in bridge
Most bridge players use a few basic conventions such as Stayman and Blackwood. But the more experienced yo get, the more conventions you use. The Pattaya bridge club has a very extensive conventions page with three distinct sections: -1 - Common/well known conventions
2 - Conventions that are either new or not widely known, I also include my treatments of a few well known conventions.
3 - Comparisons between conventions that do a similar thing or different uses for the same bid.
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pattayabridge wrote...
Rreat conventions site, the conventions are very clearly described.
Posted August 26, 2007
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by pattayabridge
Hi, I'm Terry Quested and run the bridge club in Pattaya, Thailand. I spend most of my time running the club and updating the website but I have...
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