Learn Bidding Conventions
Some of the more common conventions used in Bridge and what they mean. Bids may be “natural” meaning they are based on a holding of the suit bid, or a balanced distribution in the case of a notrump bid or “artificial” where the bid shows a feature unrelated to the suit that has been bid.
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Course Content
Bridge Conventions
- Slam Bidding – Simple Blackwood convention
- Blackwood King Ask
- Slam Bidding – Gerber Convention Ace Asking
- Slam Bidding – Gerber King Asking
- Slam Bidding Control-Bids
- Stayman Convention *
- Slam in NoTrump – Quantitative Bids
- Bid Slam in a Suit
- Negative Doubles
- Jacoby Transfer *
- Responding after a Jacoby Transfer has been made