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Bid these hands

Pick a convention. You see your cards and the auction so far, choose the call, and after each hand you read why. A set is a hundred hands, and your place in it is kept.

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Learn bridge

The game from the first deal: how it is played, the rules, the seats, the words, and what duplicate is.

Bridge Bidding100 hands

Conventions

What each artificial bid means, when to use it, and how partner answers. Filed by the situation at the table.

The Stayman Convention100 hands
Puppet Stayman100 hands
Jacoby Transfers100 hands
The Texas Transfer100 hands
Smolen convention100 hands
Jacoby 2NT100 hands
Bergen Raises100 hands
Splinter Bids100 hands
Inverted Minors100 hands
The Drury Convention100 hands
Reverse Drury100 hands
Limit raises100 hands
Help suit game tries100 hands
New Minor Forcing100 hands
Fourth Suit Forcing100 hands
The XYZ Convention100 hands
Reverse Bids in Bridge100 hands
The Blackwood Convention100 hands
Roman Key Card Blackwood100 hands
The Gerber Convention100 hands
DOPI, ROPI and DEPO100 hands
Exclusion Blackwood100 hands
The Negative Double100 hands
The Takeout Double100 hands
The Responsive Double100 hands
The Michaels Cue Bid100 hands
Cue Bids in Bridge100 hands
The Unusual 2NT100 hands
Support Doubles100 hands
The Maximal Double100 hands
Overcalls in Bridge100 hands
Weak Two Bids100 hands
The Ogust Convention100 hands
The Flannery Convention100 hands
The Strong 2 Club Opening100 hands
The Cappelletti Convention100 hands
The DONT Convention100 hands
The Landy Convention100 hands
The Lebensohl Convention100 hands
The Meckwell Convention100 hands

Bidding systems

The frameworks the conventions live in, from the yellow card to two over one.

Two Over One Game Force100 hands
Standard American Yellow Card100 hands
Bridge Bidding Cheat Sheet100 hands
Preemptive Bids100 hands

Hand evaluation

Counting a hand honestly: points, shape, losers and what they are worth.

The Rule of 17100 hands