Download or read book Better Bidding Judgement the Bergen Way written by Marty Bergen and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Bidding with Bergen written by Marty Bergen and published by Max Hardy Pub. This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Bidding with Bergen written by Marty Bergen and published by Max Hardy Pub. This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume concentrates on competitive bidding and bids to show fits for partner.
Download or read book Better Bidding with Bergen Competitive bidding fit bids more written by Marty Bergen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Bidding with Bergen Vol I Uncontested Auctions written by Edgar Kaplan and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outgrowth of his continuing column on bidding in the ACBL Bulletin.
Download or read book The Optimal Modified 2 1 Club System written by Neil H. Timm Ph.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My goal for “The Modified Optimal 2/1-Club System” is to show how to use the Optimal Point Count (OPC) method of hand evaluation developed by Patrick. Darricades in his book “Optimal Hand Evaluation” (2019) to improve the dialogue between two players to achieve an optimal bridge contract. The primary objective is to demonstrate how to apply the new system approach to contract bridge by illustrating a more accurate method of hand evaluation whether you play 2/1, Standard American (SA), Acol or Precision, among others. The Two over One (2/1) Game Force bidding system was an improvement over the SA System that has been in effect and played by bridge players for many years. Many claim that the advantage of the 2/1 system allows the partnership to know that game is possible with only a single bid provided one has 13+ points. As we shall see for suit contracts it is only true if the opening 2/1 bidder has 15 points, not 12/13 points since 25/26 points do not result in game whenever a singleton in one hand finds “wasted honor points” in partner’s hand. Yet, most 2/1 conventions call for 13+ High Card Points (HCP). Another flaw of the 2/1 approach is the fact that opening 1-level suit bids have a wide bidding range (12-21). To eliminate this flaw, the principles of Pinpoint Precision with 1*= 18+ points and new responses associated with a new and improved hand evaluation method. A major flaw of most Strong Club opening bids is that they are based solely on HCPs with opening bids of 1*=16/17+ HCP. To correct these flaws among others, the search for a better hand evaluation method and a better bidding system has been unrelenting. Hand evaluation methods have been popularized by Milton Work, Charles Goren, Marty Bergen, and Petkoy Zar, and others. All falling short when applied to the commonly used “dialogue” bidding systems. The Optimal Point Count (OPC) method of hand evaluation corrects the many flaws of prior hand evaluation methods when applied to any bidding system. In this book many “traditional/standard” bidding practices that do not help to show suit fi t and distribution are to be avoided or re-defined. Splinters and mini splinters which show the location of voids and singletons to help locate wasted honors, the XYZ bidding convention, cue bidding, and new bids for the investigation of game and slam are among the cornerstone conventions reviewed in this book. Newly defined 2 and 3-level bids to show hands with 6/7+card suits are defined to prevent the opponents from finding their optimal contract and to improve upon difficult bidding sequences using traditional bidding strategies. The evaluation of one’s Offense to Defense Ratio (ODR), why many well-known bidding sequences must be avoided, and an analysis of several old “standard” bridge laws/rules are reviewed to show why they need not be used to improve one’s judgement if one employs the OPC method.
Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Play of the Hand written by Audrey Grant and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on basic concepts of play of hand. Bidding tactics reviewed.
Download or read book Conventions Today written by Brian Senior and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best and most popular conventions in every area of bidding explained. Whatever your preferred system of bidding, you and your partner will inevitably play a number of conventions. This book will not only help you to decide what to incorporate into your partnership's armoury, but also help you to understand the many weapons that might be used against you at the table by your opponents."--Back cover
Download or read book Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century written by Max Hardy and published by Vivisphere Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..an easy recommendation for all but experts as the new 2/1 reference manual. American Contract Bridge League Magazine.
Download or read book Shortness written by James Marsh Sternberg MD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about only one thing. Shortness, singletons or voids. It’s impossible to overestimate the value distribution plays in bidding accuracy. High cards are nice; anybody can bid games and slams when the high cards are falling out of their hands onto the table. But usually those results don’t get you very far. It’s usually an average or maybe just above. You don’t win bridge tournaments that way. The pairs who bid games and slams on less and who accurately stay out of bad games and slams, those are the winners. When the ‘room’ is in 3NT scoring +460 or +490 and you are in six diamonds scoring +920, then come and tell me about it. I’ve tried to cover the different ways a player can ask or tell about shortness. The book is divided into chapters on offense and defense. There are different ways to do things in bridge. I’ve presented a system I’ve learned from some of the best. You may prefer something else. Whatever works, great. I want to give you some things to think about and suggest solutions. There are lots of ways to do things in bridge. This is one way. I hope you fi nd it helpful at the table. James Marsh Sternberg, MD Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Download or read book 2 Over 1 Game Force written by Audrey Grant and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a popular variation of Standard American bidding methods called Two-Over-One Game Force.
Download or read book Contemporary Bridge Bidding written by Leif B. Sorensen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Have I Got a Story for You written by Hanson Lawrence and published by Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Bid Or Not to Bid written by Larry Cohen and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To bid or not to bid -- the perennial dilemma in competitive auctions. The easy answer to the question lies in the correct use of the Law of Total Tricks. The LAW has been part of bridge literature since the 1950s, but it was in this book that Larry Cohen brought it to the attention of the majority of bridge players. Still the most lucid explanation of the LAW ever published, this is a book that every bridge player needs to own, to read, to re-read, and to study in order to improve their results.
Download or read book Points Schmoints written by Marty Bergen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bidding More Precisely written by Ken Casey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the 3 major bidding systems: Standard American, 2/1 and Precision Club as well as the Bergen Raise system. Solutions are offered for each disadvantage. Proposals for additional conventions such as the Weak NT and Jacoby transfers are contained in a model simplified chart of each system. There are also innovative proposals for showing a 5-card major, overcalls and slam bidding. You will also find chapters on the various conventions, irregularities in bidding, probabilities, filling out the convention card, playing in a team event and scoring.
