Bridge Conventions

Bridge conventions are bids that are artificial ie. they do not give any information about your card holdings - instead they are comprised of a set of artificial bids enabling you share or to gather key information from your partner about important cards and controls in order to bid more effectively.

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1C.Slam Bidding - Simple Blackwood convention :

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1D.Blackwood King Ask :

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1D.Slam Bidding - Gerber Convention Ace Asking :

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1E.Slam Bidding - Gerber King Asking :

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1F.Slam Bidding Control-Bids :

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2C.Stayman Convention :

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2F.Slam in NoTrump - Quantitative Bids :

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2G.Bid Slam in a Suit :

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3A.Negative Doubles :

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5A.Jacoby Transfer :

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5B.Responding after a Jacoby Transfer has been completed :

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HCP

High Card Points (HCP)
Honour cards (the Ace (A) the King (K) the Queen (Q) the Jack (J) and the Ten (10) in each suit, each of these cards is has a different points value called HCP = High Card Points. There are a total of 40 points in the entire pack of cards (10 per suit), therefore an average hand will contain 10 points.
Ace (A) = 4 HCP
King (K) = 3 HCP
Queen (Q) = 2 HCP
Jack (J) = 1 HCP
Ten (10) = 0 HCP
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