Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Class No. 14 – Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010

Notrump Bidding
Notrump bidding is more than just opening 1Nt and the systems your partnership will play in response. Understanding the principle of bidding to show fits, shapes and values is integrating bidding with balanced hands (notrump bidding) into your system bidding agreements. When rebidding to describe opener tries to convey whether his hand is balanced, thereby oriented to notrump, or unbalanced which makes a contract in a trump suit more likely to succeed. With a balanced hand opener will bid notrump as soon as possible … if opener has not bid notrump by his second turn to make a call, he probably has an unbalanced hand.

At the conclusion of this class participants should know:

1. How to value notrump hands.
2. How to bid notrump hands with 5 card majors.
3. Understand natural notrump bidding sequences.
4. How to use system bids to make forcing auctions.
5. How over notrump to show invitational and forcing hands.
6. Conventional opening notrump bids of 3Nt and 4Nt.

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