Bridge Bidding Conventions

Opening 1NT

• Strong No-Trumps
  1NT (15-17)

• Weak No-Trumps
  Kamikaze 1NT
  Weak No-trump

• Responses to 1NT
  Crawling Stayman
  Double-Barreled Stayman
  Four-Suit Transfers
  Garbage Stayman
  Gerber
  Jacoby Transfers
  Keri Response to 1NT Lebensohl
  Minor Suit Stayman
  Minor Suit Transfers
  Puppet Stayman
  Smolen
  South African Texas Transfers
  Stayman
  Texas Transfers
  Yellow Rose of Texas
  

• 1NT Escape Systems
  Brozel Escapes
  Dig-Out
  Exit Transfers
  Helvic Wriggle
  Meckwell Escapes
  Moscow Escapes
  Owen Wriggle
  Staveley Wriggle
  SWINE
  Touching Escapes
  Twisted SWINE
  

Constructive bidding

• 1NT Forcing
• Baron 2NT
• Bergen Raises
• BROMAD
• Crowhurst
• Defense to Michaels
• Drury
• Fishbein
• Fourth Suit Forcing
• Help Suit Game Try
• Herbert Negative
• Inverted Minors
• Jacoby 2NT
• Jordan 2NT (Truscott 2NT)
• Kantar Cuebid
• Kokish Relay
• Lebensohl Over Weak Two Bids
  
• Limit Raise
• Marvin 2 by Marvin French
  
• Maximal Double
  
• Muiderberg Two Bids
  
• Negative Double (Sputnik)
• New Minor Forcing
• Ogust
• Optional Double
• Raise Only Non-Forcing
• Responsive Double
• Reverse Bids
• Reverse Drury
• Reversed Splinters
• Short Suit Game Try
• Soloway Jump Shifts
• SOS Redouble
• Splinters
• Strong Jump Shifts
• Support Double
• Swiss Raises
• Three-Way Double Reverse Drury
• Thrump Double
  
• Two-Way Reverse Drury
• Unusual vs. Unusual
• Weak Jump Shifts
• Weak Two Bids
  
• Western Cuebid
• Wolff Sign-off

Slam bidding

• 5NT Pick a Slam
• Baby Blackwood
• Blackwood
• DEPO
• DOPI
• Exclusion Blackwood (aka Voidwood)
• Gerber
• Grand Slam Force
• Mathe Asking Bids
• Roman Blackwood
• Roman Key Card Blackwood
• ROPI

Defensive bidding

• Defenses to strong 1
  CRASH
  Mathe Defense to 1
  Truscott Defense to 1
  

• Defenses to 1NT
  Astro
  Brozel
  Cappelletti (Hamilton)
  DONT
  Gates Double
  Landy
  Multi-Landy (Woolsey)
  Pinpoint Astro
  Ripstra
  Roche
  SCUM
  Suction
  

• Colorful Cuebid
• Copenhagen
• Defense to Multi (Option 1)
• Defense to Multi (Option 2)
• Equal Level Conversion
• Ghestem
• Intermediate Jump Overcalls
• Leaping Michaels
• Lightner Double
• Michaels Cuebid
• OBAR BIDS
• Raptor
• Roman Jump Overcalls
• Sandwich No-trump
• Snapdragon Double
• Stripe-Tailed Ape Double
• Takeout Double
• Unusual 2NT (aka Unusual Notrump)
• Weak Jump Overcalls
  

• 1NT Calculator
• CRIFS
• Distribution Points
• The Five Level Belongs to the Opponents
• High Card Points
• Honor Count vs Point Count by Marvin French
• The Law of Total Tricks
• Losing Trick Count
• Pearson Points (Rule of 15, Cassino Count)
• Probabilities: HCP Distributions
• Rule of 2, 3 and 4
• Rule of 20

• SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card)