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(607) Safety Plays

Some players find declarer play to be fun, while others find it infuriating. Often this has to do with what we feel is the strength of our game: Are we best at Bidding, Declarer Play, or Defense? But one of the ways to improve our Declarer Play is to adopt the right mindset during the play. This is not just about having confidence in our play (which is always helpful), but also about thinking about the right thing at the right time. When it appears that we are going to make our contact, then that is the time for us to start thinking about “What could go wrong?” and then about “What can I do about it?” These are extremely powerful and helpful question to ask ourselves. What this type of thinking leads to is an extremely useful type of play, the Safety Play! Let’s look at these plays and see how they can help us improve our declarer play.

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Fundamentals - Opening and Responding Basics

9/2024 (62 min)

Here we review some fundamentals of opening bids and look more deeply into your thought process before we open the bidding. Then we pivot to the responder’s actions and make sure that we are prepared to construct a good auction with some problem situations.

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Fundamentals - High Level Response to 1-Major Openings

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When partner opens the bidding with 1-Major then we normally go slow and make a low level response. But we can also use some immediate jumps to high bids to describe some interesting and difficult hands. Let’s look at the meaning of this high-level jump responses.

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Fundamentals - Other Responses 1-Level Openings

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Here we look at some other complex auctions and special responses to 1-level opening bids. We focus on some jump shift responses to 1-Major and 1-minor and then turn out focus to NT responses to minor suit openings.

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Fundamentals - Hand Eval after Responder's Jump Shift

July 2025 - Coming Soon!

When Responder makes a jump shift, either a weak jump shift or a 3/1 invitational jump shift, then Opener is left to figure out what to do next. Here we look at what types of hands Opener should bid with (like) and when they should be conservative and Pass.

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Fundamentals - Some Confusing Auctions

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There are some classic auctions that lead to confusion between partnerships. Ones that you should make sure you and partner agree upon.

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Innovative Uses of Transfer Bids - Transfer Lebensohl Vs. Weak Jump Overcalls (WJO)

Transfers are an extremely useful tool for competitive bidding. So are relay bids, like the way we use 2NT in a Lebensohl auction. We can play a useful system, like Transfer Lebensohl, in a variety of different situations. Let’s see how we can use these methods after partner opens the bidding and the opponents take away our bidding space with a Weak Jump Overcall.

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Hand Evaluation: Counting Points - Before the Auction Begins

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Robert and Michael Berkowitz - BAMSA Conference

Robert and Michael discussion building a Vertically Integrated Youth Bridge Program (bridge for all types of players), and Other Education Foundation (ACBL) Goals at the Real Bridge / BAMSA bridge teachers & coaches conference.

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