Bridge Bidding Conventions
Bridge convention definitions have been written to the best of my knowledge. If you see anything strange or have any questions, let me know at jefftang@gmail.com.
Bidding Systems
Bidding Principles
- 1NT Calculator
- CRIFS
- Distribution Points
- The Five Level Belongs to the Opponents
- High Card Points
- The Law of Total Tricks
- Losing Trick Count
- Pearson Points (Rule of 15, Cassino Count)
- Rule of 2, 3 and 4
- Rule of 20
Opening bids
- ACOL 2
- ACOL 4NT
- ACOL Two Bids
- Alder Transfer Preempts
- Ekren 2
- Fighting Irish 2
- Flannery 2
- Gambling 3NT
- Hexagon
- Multi 2
- Myxomatosis Two Bids
- Namyats
- Precision 2
- Roman 2
- Roman 2
- Strong Two Bids
- Strong 2 Opening Bid
- Weak Two Bids
Opening 1NT
Everything related to the 1NT opening bid.
- Strong No-Trumps
- Weak No-Trumps
- Responses to 1NT
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Crawling Stayman
Double-Barreled Stayman
Garbage Stayman
Gerber
Jacoby Transfers
Lebensohl
Minor Suit Stayman
Smolen
South African Texas Transfers
Stayman
Texas Transfers
- 1NT Escape Systems
Constructive bidding
- 1NT Forcing
- Baron 2NT
- Bergen Raises
- BROMAD
- Crowhurst
- Defense to Michaels
- Drury
- Fishbein
- Fourth Suit Forcing
- Help Suit Game Try
- Herbert Negative
- Impossible Negative
- Inverted Minors
- Jacoby 2NT
- Jordan 2NT (Truscott 2NT)
- Kantar Cuebid
- Kokish Relay
- Limit Raise
- Negative Double (Sputnik)
- New Minor Forcing
- Ogust
- Optional Double
- Raise Only Non-Forcing
- Responsive Double
- Reverse Drury
- Reversed Splinters
- Short Suit Game Try
- Soloway Jump Shifts
- SOS Redouble
- Splinters
- Strong Jump Shifts
- Support Double
- Three-Way Double Reverse Drury
- Two-Way Reverse Drury
- Unusual vs. Unusual
- Weak Jump Shifts
- Western Cuebid
- Wolff Sign-off
Slam bidding
- Baby Blackwood
- Blackwood
- DEPO
- DOPI
- Gerber
- Grand Slam Force
- Roman Blackwood
- Roman Key Card Blackwood
- ROPI
Defensive bidding
- Defenses to strong 1
- Defenses to 1NT
- Colorful Cuebid
- Copenhagen
- Defense to Multi (Option 1)
- Defense to Multi (Option 2)
- Equal Level Conversion
- Intermediate Jump Overcalls
- Leaping Michaels
- Lightner Double
- Michaels Cuebid
- Raptor
- Roman Jump Overcalls
- Stripe-Tailed Ape Double
- Takeout Double
- Unusual 2NT (aka Unusual Notrump)
- Weak Jump Overcalls