Bridge Game - 4/7: Intermediate Bidding

Splinter, 3NT major support, gambling major support, control bids, keycard asking , trial bid and inverted minors.

Created byEmrah AHISKALIOGLU

Last updated 6/2022

English

What you'll learn

Splinter
3NT major support
Gambling major support
Control bids
Keycard asking
Trial bid
Inverted minors

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 4h 47m total length

Splinter1:30:19
This lecture explains splinter bids as intermediate bids signaling slam interest, differentiates natural jumps from artificial bids, and introduces autosplinter, voidwood, Stayman, Jacoby transfer, and slam invitations.
Splinter
3NT and Gambling Major Supports21:27
Explore 3NT major support, gambling major support, and the use of delayed 3NT and delayed 4-level major support, with examples and hand patterns.
3NT and Gambling Major Supports
Control Bids30:10
Learn how control bids, or cuebids, reveal first and second-round control in a suit, guide slam invitations, and identify splinter bids with major support examples.
Control Bids
Keycard Asking57:23
discover how to use keycard asking with RKCB and 4NT, evaluate responses to quantitative NT, and pursue grand slam with voidwood, DOPI-ROPI, DEPO-REPO, and Namyats conventions.
Keycard Asking
Trial Bid28:01
Explore trial bid mechanics in intermediate bidding, including how to count losers, choose trump suits, and use trial bids to invite game or push toward slam, with examples.
Trial Bid
Inverted Minors19:10
Explore inverted minors, a convention for minor supports that swaps ranges: 2-level signals 11+ points while 3-level signals 0-10, with cuebids and jumps guiding unbalanced hands after doubles or overcalls.
Inverted Minors
Other Overcalls and Responses II41:17
Master balancing overcalls, trap passes, and Stayman, Jacoby, and Texas transfers, with Landy and 2D multi defenses, plus responses to weak 1NT; explore 5-5 two-suiters and leaping michaels.
Other Overcalls and Responses II

Requirements

It will be helpful if you finish following courses first: Play Bridge in 4 Weeks: WEEK 0/5 INTRODUCTION and WEEK 1/7 BASIC BIDDING I and WEEK 2/7 CARD GAME I and WEEK 3/7 BASIC BIDDING II.

Description

Welcome to “Bridge Game – WK4/7: Intermediate Bidding” course. This course is the fundamental of bidding in bridge game and provides intermediate bidding information. The topics are:

- Splinter (responder’s rebids, jump new suit, splinter, slam invitation power, responder’s splinter, opener’s splinter)

- 3NT and Gambling Major Supports (3NT major support, gambling major support, objective, responder’s gambling, opener’s gambling, major support summary)

- Control Bids (control bids, opener’s rebids over major support, responder’s rebids over major support, examples)

- Keycard Asking (responder’s rebids, slam process, roman keycard blackwood, quantitative NT and responses, trump queen investigation, DOPI – ROPI, DEPO – REPO, grand slam trial, exclusion blackwood)

- Trial Bid (trial bid, free bidding, overcall, responder’s trial bid)

- Invertd Minors (inverted minors, responses)

- Other Overcalls and Responses II (balancing overcalls, after balancing 1NT, trap pass, overcalls to 1NT opening, overcalls to 2NT opening, overcalls to 2Cl opening, overcalls to weak openings, overcalls to conventions)

Fter completing this course, you may start joining bridge tournaments. This course is a kind of prerequisite to a series of bridge courses. When you complete this course, you may decide to keep learning bridge and attend following courses in the given order:

WEEK 5/7: Advanced Bidding (coming soon)

WEEK 6/7: Card Game II (coming soon)

WEEK 7/7: Expert Bidding (coming soon)

The last 3 courses are designed for advanced and expert players and will be published by the end of this year. You will not need them until you reach some years of experience.

Who this course is for:

This course is for everybody interested in card games especially for those who like puzzles and mind games.