Bridge Conventions

Prerequisites: Beginners Bridge Lessons and Acol or Standard American Bidding lessons.

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.

1C.Slam Bidding - Simple Blackwood convention

1D.Blackwood King Ask

1D.Slam Bidding - Gerber Convention Ace Asking

1E.Slam Bidding - Gerber King Asking

1F.Slam Bidding Control-Bids

2C.Stayman Convention

2F.Slam in NoTrump - Quantitative Bids

2G.Bid Slam in a Suit

3A.Negative Doubles

5A.Jacoby Transfer

5B.Responding after a Jacoby Transfer has been completed