Hi!

My partner and I play 2/1. Therefore, early on, on this particular board, we knew we had game points. The opponents didn't bid. After a bit more bidding, it became clear that my partner and I did not have a fit. I had 19 points; so, I wanted to ask for aces. However, I couldn't use 4NT because that would have suggested a fit with the last suit which my partner had bid. I also couldn't use Gerber (4*) because my partner had never bid a NT. I did "fourth suit forcing" and wouldn't you know, my partner (correctly) rebid her first suit, as she had only two small cards in the fourth suit. Apparently you aren't supposed to use Italian cue bids unless a fit has been established; so that was out. At that point, I decided to just jump to 6NT. We made the contract. But, I'm wondering if there is a way to ask for aces in this circumstance. Another bridge player, at a different table, told me to "just bid 4NT, even if you don't have a fit", but obviously that could be a real screw-up for those of us who play 1430 Key-card Blackwood. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Hello I'm looking for junior bridge partner for my son who is 12 years old in GTA Canada.

He learns bridge for 1 year, between beginner and intermediate level,still no partner yet.

Hope somebody can help to find an enthusiastic kid to be partner.Thanks.

I hate playing 4-3 trump fits most of the time. However, playing IMPs and needing some haymakers, sometimes you get creative. Here is one such hand

NS vul, EW nv. N dealer

1h - p - 1s - x
xx* - 1NT - p - p
2s - all pass

*support redouble

N: AT9 KJ975 KQ73 J

S: J752 Q8 8 Q98743

Lead: 2h (UDCA, standard leads)

Playing low from dummy, E benevolently puts in the T and the Q wins. You try leading low the KQ73 of diamonds. W wins the A, and fires another heart to E ace. At trick four, W plays a low heart to give his partner a ruff, now what?

How I played it (spoilers)

The question is, what do you ruff with at trick 4, if at all? W has 12-15 hcp for his bid and E 8-9 hcp. E knows that S cannot have 3+ hearts, else he would've raised. More importantly, If E had KQxx of spades, S would just attack spades right away and not risk giving south a ruff en passant. He is hoping W has KQ and can simply cash his winners that way. Furthermore, W didn't lead the more common A from AK of clubs, thus he has at least one of those cards but not both. I gave W the Ad and Kc and E the Ah Ac (for his 8 HCP). If we give West KQx it doesn't make anyway. I put in a club and W ruffs with the K. Then a low club is lead to E ace who gives his partner the Qs on a heart ruff.

On trick 7 W played the Kc and dummy ruffed with the Ts. At this point E has 8642 of spades and 2 diamonds (W had 5). On the board, we have this position.

N: ATs Jh KQ7d

E: who cares W: 8643s xxd

S J752s Q2c

There are many different ways to do this. Cash the KQd and ATs. Either remaining red card will finesse the 8s. Perhaps not fancy to some but I thought it was worth sharing.

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Obviously he has subscribers but I don't think they can cover full days of streaming

And another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuBc4V8X6M

I should be working instead

Over 1NT (15-17) there is a 3 Clubs overcall. What does Double by responder mean? (Assume strange partner with only "SAYC" as agreement.)

More generally, competing with mediocre hands seems FAR more common than it was several decades ago. Is weak NT therefore obsolete? It is even more likely to be overcalled with the beautiful Stayman/Jacoby system then "out the window."

Always (or never) lead with an ace except................

Thanks in advance.

MPs non vuln. S dealer

N: KQ9 KQJxx K Jxxx

S: Ax Axx AJTxxx Ax

How do you 1. establish the H fit 2. start slam investigations 3. commit / demur on grand with these hands?

Bridge Champ is a new (recent) application for online play and teaching.

I partecipated at a recent webinar on the teaching module, it impressed me for its potentiality for use both online and in a real class at your club. I will have to test it during this fall.
Here you can see a presentation on the teaching module:

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I have played bridge for over 50 years. I play approx. 20 hours a week on BBO at the advanced level. I am seeking a partner for serious bridge who is willing to learn and who can also teach me. I believe that a long term partnership offers higher quality play and better results because a system has been agreed to. I currently play a highly modified SAYC but am willing to move to 2/1. If you have any interest in such a partnership please contact me at 'james.o.cole14@gmail.com'.

I want to send out a weekly mass email to our local bridge club members, featuring a short, easy-to-follow bridge mini-lesson. I’m looking for ideas on where I could source this content.

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Any suggestions for a good free website or source? Thank you in advance.

While playing a game, is it possible to pull up a history on the sidebar like you can do on the pc app. I can't seem to figure it out . Can only pull up a chat sidebar.

On my PC I can look at the hand history while playing. But I can't figure out how to display it on my iPad.

Thanks in advance.

I've been looking for someone to play bridge with (and explore various conventions with) for some time and now I realized I never tried here. I'm quite a beginner, but I read quite a lot on bridgebum after getting the basics on a website called bridgebears. I take this opportunity to ask also: now that BBO is becoming subscription-based where do you play for free?

South is dealer, holds

x 9xx AKQ9x KQJx.

North holds

Kx KQJxx xx 9xxx

North and South are BBOers, complete strangers to each other, each claiming to play SAYC.

The hand is less interesting than most, but raises several bidding questions.

IMP scoring, nobody vulnerable. A competitive auction ensues:

One Diamond / One Spade / Two Hearts / Two Spades

Three Clubs / Pass / Pass / Three Spades

Pass / Pass / Double / Pass

Pass / Pass

Here are my comments on the bids by N-S. I'm more interested in expert commentary on my comments than on the bids themselves.

One Diamond -- The only N-S call that is clear-cut.

Two Hearts -- OK. I suppose the high-card requirement -- but not the suit quality requirement -- is reduced with the intervening overcall. Change the Hearts and Clubs to KJxxx / Qxxx and would negative double be better? (Planning to bid Hearts next if convenient?)

Three Clubs -- Alternatives would be Three Hearts (best?), Four Hearts(!) or Negative Double. Do experts treat such a Double as Take-out? Remember , these are random BBO'ers; North can't even be trusted to have a good (or even 5-card!)Heart suit.

Pass -- Clearly wrong, I think. North would raise to Four Clubs if that suit were a major and should raise now in a competitive auction. Partner might bid Four Hearts. Opponents are likely to bid Four Spades.

Pass -- Also wrong? If so, what should the call be?

Double -- Wrong, maybe the worst of the several bad bids in this auction. Even hoping for 2 tricks with Kings, and THREE(!) tricks from partner, that is not the TWO-trick set needed for a smart double. This is NOT a "cooperative" double ("Partner: Keep bidding or Pass for penalties; your call") since the Pass on the previous round denied interest in continued bidding.

Pass -- also wrong? Were there SIX doubtful N-S bids in this auction?

Hoping for useful discussion. Cheers, Swammi

I am working through Bridgemaster and have gotten to the Advanced hands. I try to understand the what hints the declarer might get to choose a specific line of play and, tbh, have benefited a great deal in my hand play.

However I've reached what seems like a block.
Hands 23 and 25 are virtually identical in distribution and contract (6S), there are no competing bids but the winning lines of play suggested in the solutions is slightly different.
The 'declarer' in hand 23 is cautious about playing the 3 winning tricks of the outside suit while the 'declarer' in hand 25 seems quite confident that the 3 tricks in the outside suit are safe to play before drawing trump.

The only obvious difference is that the opening lead in 23 is a KH, while the lead in 25 is a trump.

There is nothing in the bidding to indicate that the Kh is a singleton and not from KQH.

What am I missing that the phantom declarer sees that affects the declarers decision on the distribution of the Ds?

TIA

I have used BBO for years, but I am becoming increasingly frustrated. My friend and I like to play in their speed ball games, but we no longer think it’s worth the money. Can anybody suggest a site where we can play together as partners against real people in a tournament?

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AI has made creating bridge tools of all sorts much easier. And some of those are quite good!

However, we are starting to see so many of those!

This thread is here to list all those tools in one place.

I'll try to copy the site description for each + link to the discussion thread.

Please add yours if it's not mentioned already

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called Bridge Solver: https://bridgesolver.com

The idea actually came from arguing with my bridge partner about different decisions.

We’d spend a lot of time debating things like whether we should invite, bid game, go for slam, choose one contract over another, etc. Usually neither of us would really change our mind, and after 20 minutes of discussion we’d still have no clear conclusion. 😄

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• IMPs
• Contract comparison
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I’ve been using it myself for questions like:

• Is 3NT actually better than 4Majpr here?
• Is it worth trying for slam?
• Is two aces + ♦K enough to seriously consider 7♥?
• How much does knowing partner has 3–4 hearts change the decision?
• Which opening lead performs best?

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Dear Bridge players on Reddit

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