ACBLO6C – General: Winning Bridge Ward Trumbull
Feb 25, 2013
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To win at bridge (rubber or duplicate) you need 4 things.
1. Aggressive- assertive bidding.
a. Use 15-18 HCP for opening 1 notrump hands.
B. Use the Trumbull 2 club opening bid.
c. Use Ogust when partner opens Weak 2 hands.
d. Use Roman Key Card Gerber and Blackwood.
2. LUCK – bad defense by the opponents
contracts.
c. They cash aces at the first opportunity.
d. They pay no attention to which suit(s) their partner may be ruffing.
e. Dummys that have singletons or voids when you are in a suit contract.
f. Reasonable suit splits, such as 4-3-3-3, 5-3-3-2 and 6-3-2-2.
3. DECLARER PLAY
a. As declarer, you or partner must use the ARCH checklist to come up with a
reasonable line of play.
1) Winners in notrump contracts
2) Losers in suit contracts
3) Opponent’s HCP
4) Suit distributions
5) Opponent’s discards
6) Your blessings
4. PENALTY DOUBLES
a. Make more penalty doubles on competitive bidding hands.
b. Make Save bids with very distributional hands.
c. Don’t pull partner’s penalty doubles.