How do we keep bidding after Responder redoubles and what do those bids mean?

This week we look at a natural extension to Two-Way NMF, XYZ!

This week we examine a simple auction that can lead to many bidding mix-ups: 1C - 1D - 1H - 1S*!

When we jump to game with a good hand the danger is that we miss a slam.  This week we look at how we can use 3NT as a conventional call to solve this problem.  

Jacoby 2NT is a common agreement for major suit raises.  It can be an effective tool, but it has some flaws.  This week we look at an upgrade to Jacoby 2NT to help improve on these flaws. 

Drury in competition is a complicated thing.  There are many options for treatments.  We will look at these options and hopefully help you and Partner come to an agreement about "How much Drury do you want to play?"

The auction P - 1M - 2N can lead to some big disasters.  This week we take a look at it in detail and make sure you and partner are on the same page.  

Drury is a great convention.  This week we look at alternatives to "normal Drury" and also discuss the meaning of our followup bids.

When Interferer jumps to 4-Major it can make our life very difficult.  The only way we can survive such auctions is to be prepared for them and know what our options are.   This week we take a look at what Responder can do and how we can survive the auction!

Let's see how we can use 2N to ask about Opener's trump holding -- the number of trump (3 or 4) and the quality of their hand (Max or min)!

Kokish Game Tries are a significant upgrade to traditional Help Suit Game Tries.  Let's see how these help us better evaluate our hand for slam!

This week we look at how overcalling a 4-card suit can help make our auctions easier!

This week we look at more ways to use Splinters.  These more advanced auctions give us more ways to apply this valuable tool!

Showing our Hand Type to partner early in the auction has become the norm in modern bidding.  The core of this is the Walsh Concept.  This week we discuss this basic bidding approach.  

New Minor Forcing is a useful tool for asking partner (Opener) to further describe their hand.  This week we examine an upgrade to NMF -- Two-Way New Minor Forcing.   We will see how it helps us better describe our hand...

Lebensohl is a very useful treatment in many auctions.  When we Reverse, the auction can advance to a very high level very quickly.  Let's see how Lebensohl can help us better communicate with partner in these auctions. 

This month we tackle some more advanced bidding tools.   We will begin with a discussion of a gadget that helps us when partner misbehaves in the 3rd seat - Drury!!

 Help Suit Game Tries (HSGT) are valuable tools for communicating with Partner.  We end the year's OLS by discussing uses and meanings of these HSGT.   We discuss traditional uses of trying for game and using HSGT in order to explore slam.